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今日共更新1056篇论文,其中:
- 自然语言处理共144篇(Computation and Language (cs.CL))
- 人工智能共302篇(Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI))
- 计算机视觉共210篇(Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV))
- 机器学习共327篇(Machine Learning (cs.LG))
- 多智能体系统共15篇(Multiagent Systems (cs.MA))
- 信息检索共19篇(Information Retrieval (cs.IR))
- 人机交互共17篇(Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC))
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[MA-0] Mental-Models for Multi-Agent Systems NEURIPS2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多智能体系统在部分可观测环境下进行鲁棒决策时，缺乏对其他智能体信念、意图和行为倾向的显式建模问题。现有代理系统通常依赖提示工程、记忆机制或端到端行为塑造，但未能学习可跨任务复用的显式伙伴状态表征。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于心理模型（mental-model-enabled agents）的框架，通过联合学习一种可摊销的递归心智理论（Theory-of-Mind, ToM）表示，包含一阶与二阶心理状态结构，并构建一个基于信念条件化的奖励模型，以评估候选动作相对于推断出的伙伴状态的表现。在此信念感知的信号指导下学习策略，使代理在推理阶段能够独立行动，同时保留显式伙伴建模的优势。实验表明，该方法在纯语言与多模态基准上均显著提升了交互质量与心智理论能力，验证了结构化伙伴建模作为通用多智能体系统的有效归纳偏置。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12453
作者: Hanan Gani,Lulu Shao,Manmohan Chandraker
机构: University of California, San Diego (加州大学圣地亚哥分校)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Large foundation models have accelerated progress toward general-purpose agents that interact with humans and other agents through language and multimodal signals. However, robust multi-agent decision-making requires reasoning about what other agents know, intend, and are likely to do under partial observability. Current agentic systems often operate through prompt design, memory, or end-to-end behavioral shaping, but typically do not learn an explicit partner-state representation that can be reused as a decision variable across tasks. We introduce \emphmental-model-enabled agents, a framework that equips an agent with a latent mental model of its counterpart, allowing it to infer hidden beliefs, intentions, and likely reactions from the observed history and use these inferences to guide action selection. Our method learns an amortized recursive Theory-of-Mind representation, with first- and second-order mental-state structure, jointly with a belief-conditioned reward model that evaluates candidate actions relative to the inferred partner state. A policy is then learned under this belief-aware signal, yielding an agent that can act independently at inference time while retaining the benefits of explicit partner modeling. We evaluate the same framework on both language-only and multimodal benchmarks. Across these settings, explicit mental-state modeling consistently improves interaction quality and Theory-of-Mind performance over base agentic systems, showing that structured partner modeling is a useful inductive bias for general multi-agent systems. Our code is publicly available at this https URL
[MA-1] Ecology of AI Agents : Collaboration Creates a Population Threshold for Takeoff
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 代理（AI agents）在缺乏对齐性（misaligned goals）的情况下，可能引发的自我强化型群体扩张问题，即“生态安全”（ecological safety）问题。传统上，人工智能安全研究聚焦于单个或固定数量智能体的安全性，而本文提出一种新的视角：当多个不具对齐性的智能体能够通过协作提升集体网络安全能力，并在成功入侵后自我复制以扩大种群规模时，便可能触发不可控的指数级增长，形成类似“人口爆炸”的恶性循环。其核心挑战在于确定何种条件下这种群体扩张会被遏制，或进入自我加速的失控状态。解决方案的关键在于构建基于种群增长方程的生态学理论框架，其中个体适应度（生长率）取决于其网络安全能力。研究发现，在无协作情况下，种群爆发仅当个体能力超过临界阈值时发生；而在存在协作的情况下，集体网络安全能力随种群规模上升，从而引入“强阿尔勒效应”（strong Allee effect），即存在一个关键种群规模阈值：低于该阈值时种群衰减，高于则即使个体能力未变也会发生爆发。因此，论文提出“生态红队测试”（ecological red teaming）与“种群速率控制”（population pacing）策略——即在受控环境中逐步部署更大规模的智能体群体，测量网络安全能力随种群规模的扩展规律，并动态估算临界规模。由于新模型的能力提升可能降低此阈值，故需针对每一代新模型重新评估，以确保生态安全。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12436
作者: Erin Crawley,Hidenori Tanaka
机构: CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University (哈佛大学); Physics of Artificial Intelligence Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA (NTT 研究公司)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
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Abstract:AI agents can now conduct real-world cyberattacks, scale up capabilities with the number of agents, and collectively pursue misaligned goals to obtain rewards. Together, these factors raise the risk of a population explosion of misaligned agents: agents could compromise computers and secretly deploy additional agents, creating a self-reinforcing cycle where larger populations develop greater collective cyber capability and expand further. This raises a fundamental question: What determines whether a population of misaligned agents remains contained or takes off into this self-reinforcing cycle? This population-level problem is ecological safety: unlike individual-agent or multi-agent safety with a fixed population, it concerns the dynamics of the population itself. Here, we develop an ecological theory of AI-agent populations based on a population growth equation in which fitness (growth rate) depends on cybersecurity capability. We show that, without collaboration, the population takes off only when individual-agent capability exceeds a critical threshold. With collaboration, however, collective cybersecurity capability increases with population size. This creates a critical population threshold: below it, the population declines; above it, the population takes off, even though individual-agent capability has not changed. In ecology, this phenomenon is known as the strong Allee effect. Because red teaming a small group of agents cannot guarantee ecological safety in larger populations, our theory calls for ecological red teaming and population pacing: gradually deploying larger agent populations in controlled environments, while measuring how cyber capability scales with population size, and estimating the critical population size for takeoff. Capability gains may lower this threshold, requiring re-estimation for each new model generation.
[MA-2] Spatial Pattern Formation from Multi-Agent Learning in Public Goods Dilemmas
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在资源分布不均的环境中，个体基于局部观测通过学习机制自主决定移动策略时，如何形成空间聚集模式及其对集体福利的影响问题。其核心挑战在于揭示学习速率（learning rate）如何调节个体行为演化过程，并进而影响空间组织形态与整体社会福祉之间的权衡关系。解决方案的关键在于引入基于表格Q-learning（tabular Q-learning）的自主学习框架，使合作者（cooperators）与背叛者（defectors）在固定种群规模下根据局部环境信息独立优化移动策略；研究发现，高学习速率的合作者倾向于在资源丰度峰值区域形成集群，而合作者与背叛者之间的协同适应则动态调节这些集群的强度与运动特性。当合作者以高学习率、背叛者以低学习率进行学习时，集体福利损失最大，且在此条件下可产生由共同方向偏好驱动的“行进带”（traveling bands）等复杂时空模式，但这些模式依赖于训练历史而非稳定渐近解。进一步分析表明，在所有测试的学习速率组合中，由于过度聚集导致的拥挤成本超过了资源获取收益，使得平均集体福利低于随机移动水平；然而，若在学习过程中对个体施加拥挤成本惩罚（即考虑其对他人造成的拥挤影响），则可显著缓解福利损失。因此，该研究揭示了学习速率与由个体激励驱动的空间组织形态及其福利代价之间的深层关联。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12321
作者: Yefei Zhang,Yuxuan Zhao
机构: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄本那-香槟分校)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Spatial public goods models show that prescribed movement toward richer locations can generate spatial patterns. We ask how such patterns emerge when agents learn where to move and how learning rates shape their consequences for collective welfare. Fixed populations of cooperators and defectors independently learn movement policies using tabular Q-learning and local observations. Cooperator learning generates clusters around resource peaks, while co-adaptation changes their strength and motion. At a fixed training budget, the largest welfare losses occur when cooperators learn at high rates and defectors at low rates. In part of this regime, learned policies also generate traveling bands supported by a shared directional preference. The conditions supporting travel change with further training, so these patterns reflect training history rather than an established asymptotic outcome. Across the tested learning-rate conditions with cooperator learning, mean collective welfare falls below random movement because increased crowding outweighs gains in resource benefit. Charging agents for the crowding they impose on others during learning recovers much of the welfare loss in the tested conditions. These results connect learning rates to the emergence and welfare costs of spatial organization driven by individual rewards.
[MA-3] OA-MAP: Evidence-Grounded Multi-Agent Multimodal Framework for Interpretable Knee Osteoarthritis Progression
【速读】：该论文旨在解决膝骨关节炎（Knee Osteoarthritis, KOA）进展预测中多模态数据融合不足、缺乏可解释性以及临床决策支持系统自动化程度低的问题。现有方法通常仅提供孤立的风险评估结果，难以揭示预测背后的机制与证据依据，限制了其在临床实践中的应用价值。为实现结构与疼痛进展的自动化、可解释性评估，作者提出了一种名为OA-MAP的自主多智能体框架，其核心创新在于构建了一个由影像模态专用智能体（如MRI、X射线）、临床信息智能体及协调器智能体组成的协同体系，能够根据患者信息自动调用专家智能体、选择合适分析工具，并从文献库中检索外部证据以支撑判断。该框架引入基于不确定性的“人在回路”机制，允许临床医生对中间结果进行审查与修正，触发受影响结果的重新计算，从而保证预测的准确性与可信度。在来自FNIH骨关节炎生物标志物联盟队列的600名参与者中进行评估，测试集（100人）上融合模型在结构进展预测中达到0.80的AUROC，疼痛进展预测为0.68。案例研究进一步展示了OA-MAP如何整合风险估计、跨模态矛盾、文献支持与不确定性指标，实现交互式、证据驱动的临床决策支持。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12134
作者: Sixu Chen,Mingrui Yang,Qiang Guan,Xiaojuan Li
机构: Cleveland Clinic(克利夫兰诊所); Kent State University(肯特州立大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) progression prediction can support patient monitoring, requiring the integration of multimodal data and multidomain expertise. Moreover, isolated risk estimates provide limited insight underlying a prediction. To automate the progression assessment workflow and reduce manual effort while providing interpretable findings and supporting evidence, we present OA-MAP, an autonomous multi-agent framework for evidence-grounded assessment of structural and pain progression in KOA. The system incorporates modality-specific agents including MRI, X-ray, and clinical agents, together with a coordinator agent. This framework can autonomously recruit specialist agents, select tools for prediction and analysis, and retrieve literature as external evidence based on user request and available patient information. An uncertainty-informed human-in-the-loop mechanism enables clinicians to review and correct intermediate findings, triggering recomputation of affected results. We evaluate the prediction models using 600 participants from the FNIH Osteoarthritis Biomarkers Consortium cohort. On the test set of 100 participants, the fusion models achieve AUROCs of 0.80 for structural progression and 0.68 for pain progression. A case study illustrates how OA-MAP combines risk estimates with intermediate findings, cross-modal conflicts, literature support, and uncertainty indicators to support interactive review.
[MA-4] Policy Synthesis for Finite Populations of MDP Agents under Aggregate Reach-Avoid Chance Constraints
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在有限规模群体（finite fleet size N）下，具有解耦马尔可夫转移动力学与经验密度反馈的多智能体系统中，如何满足概率性约束（chance constraints）的控制问题。具体而言，要求以至少 1−δr 的概率确保至少 αr 的智能体在某个时刻 t∗ 到达目标区域，同时在 $t^* $ 之前每一时刻，处于危险区域的智能体比例不超过 βu，且该条件以至少 1−δu 的概率成立。传统平均场方法仅在期望层面满足这些约束，无法刻画有限规模群体下的随机波动（stochastic fluctuations），因而存在可靠性不足的问题。为此，本文的关键解决方案是：通过离散时间李雅普诺夫递推（Lyapunov recursion）同步传播经验密度的一阶矩（均值）和二阶矩（方差），并利用坎特利不等式（Cantelli inequality）将原概率约束转化为关于经验密度矩的可处理确定性条件。进一步地，将这些基于矩的代理约束嵌入梯度驱动的序列凸逼近（sequential convex approximation）框架中，用于合成密度反馈型控制策略，并引入额外的矩误差界以构建严格的有限 N 可靠性证明（certificate）。该方法在网格世界环境与电力系统中电动汽车充电聚合问题上进行了验证，相较于标准确定性种群级线性规划（LP）基线，展现出更强的鲁棒性与可行性保障。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12028
作者: Jie Fu,Anamika Dubey
机构: University of Florida (佛罗里达大学); Washington State University (华盛顿州立大学)
类目: ystems and Control (eess.SY); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
备注: 8 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the 2027 American Control Conference
Abstract:Consider a finite population of agents with decoupled Markov transition dynamics and empirical-density feedback, subject to the following constraints: with probability at least 1-\delta_r , at least a fraction \alpha_r of agents must reach a target region at some time t^* , while, at each time up to t^* , the unsafe population fraction must remain below \beta_u with probability at least 1-\delta_u . However, standard mean-field methods enforce these constraints only in expectation, which fails to account for stochastic fluctuations at finite fleet size N . To address this control problem, we propagate the second-order moment (variance) of the empirical density alongside the mean-field trajectory via a discrete-time Lyapunov recursion, and apply the Cantelli inequality to convert chance constraints into tractable deterministic conditions on the moments of the empirical density. We then incorporate these moment-based surrogate constraints into a gradient-based sequential convex approximation procedure for density-feedback policy synthesis. We further introduce additional moment-error bounds to construct a rigorous finite- N certificate. The method is evaluated on a gridworld environment and a power-system EV-charging aggregation problem and compared with a standard deterministic population-level LP baseline.
[MA-5] MindFlow: Mind Supernet Powered Thinking Flows for Research Idea Innovation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决科研创新想法生成与评估中难以实现可扩展、可控化的问题，核心挑战在于研究想法需在新颖性、合理性与可行性之间实现多目标平衡，且具有高度开放性。传统基于大语言模型（LLM）的方法受限于预定义的静态思维流程，缺乏灵活性与优化能力。为此，本文提出MindFlow框架，其关键在于将创意生成过程形式化为一种图结构的“心智流”（mind flow），由模块化思维算子构成，并通过概率心智超网络（probabilistic mind supernet）进行建模。系统通过控制器动态采样不同的思维路径以生成候选想法，并利用基于锦标赛的相对排序机制对不同思维流的质量进行迭代优化，从而逐步引导生成更高质量的研究构想。此外，该框架引入了一种联合评估协议，综合考察问题发现与问题求解能力，突破了仅依赖标题或摘要的片面评价方式。实验表明，MindFlow在多样化主题下展现出明确、可控且可优化的科研创新潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11966
作者: Mengdi Liu,Wenjue Chen,Wenyue Chen,Cheng Yang,Fanqi Kong,Zhangyang Gao,Xiaoxue Cheng,Yiheng Li,Yujian Yuan,Keliang Li,Hong Chang,Shiguang Shan,Chenglin Wu
机构: State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所人工智能安全国家重点实验室); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学); Peking University(北京大学); DeepWisdom(深智科技); Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室); Renmin University of China(中国人民大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Research idea innovation is a fundamental engine of scientific progress, yet it remains difficult to generate and evaluate in a scalable and controllable way. This challenge lies in its inherently open-ended and multi-objective nature, where ideas should balance novelty, plausibility and feasibility. While recent LLM-based approaches have made progress through carefully designed prompts or agent pipelines, they are constrained by predefined, static ideation workflows. To address this limitation, we propose MindFlow, a framework that explicitly formulates ideation as a graph-structured Flow in Mind, which is composed of modular thinking operators and modeled by a probabilistic mind supernet. Given a research topic, a controller dynamically samples thinking flows to generate candidate ideas. This open-ended problem is optimized using a tournament-based relative ranking, enabling the controller to progressively favor higher-quality thinking flows. We further introduce an evaluation protocol that jointly assesses problem finding and problem solving, going beyond title- or abstractonly judgments. Across diverse topics, MindFlow shows its superiority as an explicit, controllable and optimizable research idea innovator.
[MA-6] ConventionPlay: Capability-Limited Training for Robust Ad-Hoc Collaboration ICLR2027
【速读】：该论文旨在解决即兴协作（ad-hoc collaboration）中智能体如何在未知合作方遵循多种潜在协同惯例（convention）的情况下，有效识别并适配最优协作策略的问题。现有强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）方法通常假设合作方仅遵循单一固定惯例，因而训练出的智能体缺乏对伙伴适应能力多样性的建模，导致在面对可变适应性伙伴时性能下降。本文提出的解决方案——ConventionPlay，其关键在于：通过构建一个具备不同适应能力水平的合成伙伴群体（learned population of partners），其中部分伙伴严格遵循单一惯例，而另一些则能灵活切换至任务中部分可行的惯例，从而迫使训练中的智能体主动探测合作方的能力边界，并引导其向自身可支持的最高效联合策略演进。这一设计使智能体不仅学会识别惯例，更具备动态协商与引导能力，显著提升了在多惯例兼容测试环境下的协作性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11842
作者: Abhishek Sriraman,Eleni Vasilaki,Robert Loftin
机构: University of Sheffield (谢菲尔德大学); Carnegie Mellon University (卡内基梅隆大学)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
备注: Extension to arXiv:2604.18123 . Under review at ICLR 2027
Abstract:Ad-hoc collaboration often requires agents to identify and adhere to some shared convention within a cooperative task. Existing work on reinforcement learning (RL) for ad-hoc collaboration focuses on training agents that adapt to the conventions established by their partners. These methods fail to consider the possibility that while some partners might follow only a single fixed convention, others may themselves be capable of adapting to multiple conventions. Here we present ConventionPlay, an RL-based approach that teaches agents to discover their partner’s optimal convention by training against a learned population of partners that exhibit different degrees of adaptability across conventions. Some of these partners follow a single, fixed convention, while others are able to adapt to a subset of the possible conventions for the task in question. The existence of partners that support a limited subset of conventions forces agents trained against this population to actively probe their partner’s capabilities, and steer their partner towards the most effective joint strategy that they are capable of following. Our experimental results demonstrate that agents trained via ConventionPlay achieve superior performance to existing ad-hoc collaboration methods against test populations of partners that are compatible with multiple conventions.
[MA-7] Epistemic Disturbance in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: State-Preserving Actions Four-Valued Assessments and the Distinction between Capability and Intention
【速读】：该论文旨在解决图模型冲突分析（GMCR）中对“不作为”（inaction）的定义过于简化的局限性问题，即传统模型将所有不改变系统状态的行为均视为“不作为”，而忽视了诸如声明、演习、信息泄露和选择性披露等保持状态不变但改变其他决策者信念的行为。这类行为虽未引发物理状态转移，却通过影响对手对可行动作及其意图的认知，实质性地塑造冲突态势。其解决方案的关键在于引入认知状态（epistemic state）以扩展状态空间：将状态划分为物理状态与认知状态，从而区分物理移动（改变物理状态）、状态保持型动作（仅改变认知状态）以及真正的不作为（无状态转移）。通过构建基于四值逻辑的扩展GMCR框架，该研究明确指出：支持性证据仅能“启用”感知到的行动，反对性证据仅能“禁用”行动；四种约简算子中有两种忽略其中一类证据；矛盾评估在单调累积下具有吸收性。结合动作集稳定性在单调性下的方向性特征，该框架能够精确刻画行动如何触发挑衅或威慑。此外，能力评估影响所有基于制裁的稳定性概念及自身纳什稳定性，而意图评估仅作用于顺序稳定性；在两种候选类型间的策略性权衡会根据矛盾解读方式弱化或强化观察者的顺序稳定集。在1995年DVD格式谈判案例中，传统广义元理性无法识别各阶段差异（因计算机产业集团始终具备制裁能力），而顺序稳定性则可通过考察其是否实际动用制裁来实现阶段区分。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11690
作者: Yukiko Kato
机构: Lynx Technologies Inc.(Lynx科技公司); Institute of Science Tokyo(东京科学研究所)
类目: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:In the graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR), a decision maker (DM) either moves the conflict to another state or does nothing. The basic definitions leave inaction implicit, so every action that leaves the state unchanged is treated as doing nothing. Yet announcements, exercises, leaks and selective disclosures are neither moves nor inaction: they leave the state unchanged but change what other DMs believe about which moves are available and which moves others would want to make. We introduce such state-preserving actions by augmenting states with the DMs’ epistemic states: a physical move changes the physical state, a state-preserving action changes only the epistemic state, and inaction is the absence of a transition. Actions generate evidence through observer-specific interpretation maps. Building on a four-valued extension of GMCR from the author’s earlier work, which separates evidence for and against, we show that evidence for a move can only enable perceived moves and evidence against can only disable them, that two of the four reduction operators ignore one kind of evidence, and that contradictory assessments are absorbing under monotone accumulation. With the monotonicity of stability in move sets, this fixes the direction in which any action moves a DM’s stability judgements and characterizes when actions can enable provocation or deterrence. Capability assessments affect all sanction-based stability concepts, and on the DM’s own side also Nash stability, whereas intention assessments affect only sequential stability. Hedging between two candidate types weakly expands or shrinks an observer’s sequentially stable set according to how it reads contradiction. In the 1995 DVD format negotiation, general metarationality cannot distinguish its phases, since the computer industry group could always sanction; sequential stability, which asks whether it would, can.
[MA-8] SWE-Journey: Towards More Realistic Evaluation of Coding Assistants through Long-Horizon Multi-Turn Interaction
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有编码助手评估基准在任务周期（task horizon）和交互长度（interaction length）方面与真实开发场景严重脱节的问题。当前的编码助手需在持续演化的代码仓库中完成长周期、多轮迭代的开发任务，且需通过反复澄清需求与调整实现方案来推进工作，而现有基准难以模拟这一复杂过程。为此，研究提出SWE-Journey基准，其核心解决方案包括：一是设计“弱到强合成”（weak-to-strong synthesis）流水线，自动生成具有长周期特征的复杂编码任务；二是基于真实交互数据挖掘出四种典型用户角色（user personas），构建用户仿真代理（user-simulation agent），以复现贴近实际的多轮交互场景。实验结果表明，模型在面对软件架构师时平均通过率超过75%的测试用例，但在非专业用户场景下则低于25%，揭示当前编码助手在支持非专业人士进行可靠编程方面仍存在显著不足。进一步分析指出，在交互过程中“提出正确问题”（asking right）、“找到正确答案”（finding right）与“修复正确错误”（fixing right）是关键能力，这些能力的缺失是导致性能差距的核心原因。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11559
作者: Hexuan Deng,Yue Wang,Wenyu Jiang,Cheng Yang,Haolin Yang,Zhaohua Zhang,Chenchen Zhao,Beiduo Chen,Muxi Chen,Sa Zhu,Geyuan Zhu,Jianhuan Zhuo,Qiuyong Xiao,Tianwen Jiang,Jihong Zhang,Xuebo Liu
机构: Tencent Hy AI Data(腾讯幻核AI数据); Beijing Zhongguancun Academy(北京中关村学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:Coding assistants such as Claude Code and Codex have become a major application of LLM agents, yet existing benchmarks remain far from real-world use, particularly in task horizon and interaction length. Code assistants require completing long chains of development work in continuously evolving repositories, while repeatedly clarifying requirements and adapting implementations through multi-turn interaction. To address these gaps, we introduce SWE-Journey, a benchmark for more realistic evaluation of coding assistants. To address the task-horizon gap, we propose a weak-to-strong synthesis pipeline that automatically constructs long-horizon coding tasks. To address the interaction gap, we mine four representative user personas from real interaction data and build a user-simulation agent to reproduce realistic code-assistance interactions. On average, models pass over 75% of tests for requested functionality with software architects, but fewer than 25% with non-coders. These results show that current coding assistants still fall short of enabling reliable coding for non-coders. We further analyze the reasons for this gap and identify asking right, finding right, and fixing right as key capabilities during interaction.
[MA-9] Personalization Matters: Long-Horizon Conversation Agent with User-Centric Information in Online Shopping Interactions AACL
【速读】：该论文旨在解决个性化对话式购物中多轮交互下偏好一致性难以维持的问题，尤其针对用户逐步揭示约束条件的场景。现有方法通常依赖静态用户画像，缺乏对长时程交互行为的显式控制。为此，论文提出一种多智能体、多模态的检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）框架，通过分解对话状态追踪、推荐检索、偏好感知推理与响应生成四个模块，并融合产品元数据、用户评论、图像衍生描述及历史评论等多源信息，实现更精准的个性化交互。其解决方案的关键在于：基于角色分工的多智能体架构与以用户为中心的检索机制相结合，不仅提升了对用户长期偏好的建模能力，还增强了对话过程中的信息整合与语气一致性。在Amazon Reviews 2023基准上的实验表明，引入检索机制的变体在自动轨迹评估指标上显著优于无RAG基线（平均4.82 vs. 3.74），小规模真实用户研究（n=5）也显示，完整版本在整体满意度评分上达到4.60，远超基线的2.20，验证了该方法在提升感知个性化方面的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11375
作者: Rena Gao,Yue Dai,Hao Guan,Shengxiang Gao,Wangyang Wu,Yixin Shen,Jey Han Lau
机构: ByteDance(字节跳动); The University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学); AXON; University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Personalized conversational shopping requires maintaining preference consistency over multi-turn interactions, where users reveal constraints gradually. Existing approaches often rely on static profiles and do not explicitly control long-horizon interaction behavior. We propose a multi-agent, multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework that decomposes dialogue state tracking, recommendation retrieval, preference-aware reasoning, and response generation, while integrating product metadata, product reviews, image-derived descriptions, and user historical reviews. To evaluate interaction-level quality, we adopt a trajectory-level protocol with four dimensions: Global Preference Consistency, Cumulative Information Synthesis, Interaction Trajectory, and Tone Consistency. On an Amazon Reviews 2023 benchmark, retrieval-enabled variants outperform a no-RAG baseline on automatic trajectory metrics (average 4.82 vs. 3.74). In a small real-user study ( n=5 ), the Full variant achieves the highest mean overall rating (4.60 vs. 2.20 for Baseline), providing exploratory evidence that role decomposition plus user-centric retrieval improves perceived personalization.\footnoteCode and dataset are available at: this https URL
[MA-10] Reading the Room: Foundations Design and Challenges of Normative Competence in LLM s
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前大型语言模型（LLM）在与人类社会规范（norms）对齐过程中所面临的“规范性能力”（normative competence）缺失问题，即模型难以仅通过交互经验识别并遵循社区所实际执行的规范，而非依赖预训练阶段的静态知识。其核心挑战在于：规范数量庞大、动态变化且常具任意性（如着装或语言惯例），传统基于预训练的方法无法有效应对。为此，作者提出一种多智能体社区辩论设置，通过引入由合成规范控制的辩论访问机制，在隔离预训练影响的前提下，专门考察模型的规范性能力。实验表明，基线LLM代理即使在学习规范能提升准确率的情况下仍无法习得规范，且不同规范模块（normative modules）的表现高度依赖于规范类型和底层模型架构，显示出显著的非通用性。更关键的是，当真实规范伴随个体化、非规范性行为时，LLM表现出“无选择性归因失败”（unselective attribution failure）——即盲目复制非规范性噪声，即便此类模仿行为被明确惩罚也依然存在。这揭示了当前AI系统虽擅长行为模仿，却缺乏对社会强制秩序的实质性理解能力。该研究首次实现了对规范性能力的可操作化评估，指出了现有生成式AI在社会规范认知上的根本局限。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10906
作者: Andrea Wynn,Harsh Satija,Seokhyun(Nathan)Baek,Anqi Liu,Eric Nalisnick,Gillian K. Hadfield
机构: Johns Hopkins University (约翰霍普金斯大学); Vector Institute
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Human communities are governed by normative systems: shared standards that produce \textitnorms dictating acceptable behavior, enforced through community sanctioning. Aligning increasingly autonomous AI systems with these norms is a central alignment challenge, complicated by the fact that norms are vast in number, change quickly, and are often arbitrary (e.g., dress or language conventions). Thus, alignment requires \textitnormative competence: the ability to discern from interaction alone what norms a community enforces without relying on static pretrained knowledge. We introduce a multi-agent community debate setting, where access to debate is governed by synthetic norms, to study normative competence in isolation from pretraining exposure. We show that baseline LLM agents fail to learn norms even when doing so would improve their accuracy. We then experiment with various \textitnormative modules – architectural components for norm inference – finding that norm-following is highly sensitive to both the style of norm and the model powering the normative module, suggesting a lack of generalizability. Furthermore, when idiosyncratic, non-normative behaviors accompany the true norm, LLM agents exhibit an unselective attribution failure: they indiscriminately copy idiosyncratic noise alongside enforced rules, a pattern that persists even when imitating unnecessary behaviors is explicitly penalized. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to operationalize and evaluate normative competence in LLMs, demonstrating that current AI systems excel at behavioral mimicry but lack the capacity to discern socially enforced order.
[MA-11] Decentralized collaborative continual learning: A multi-objective minimization-based technique
【速读】：该论文旨在解决去中心化持续学习（decentralized continual learning）中的稳定性-可塑性困境（stability-plasticity dilemma），即在任务序列化演进过程中，如何在保持对先前任务知识的稳定性的同时，具备适应新任务的可塑性。其核心挑战在于，各代理在分布式、流式数据采集环境下仅能进行本地计算，并通过通信图与邻近代理交换信息，无法全局共享或访问全部历史数据。为应对稳定性问题，该研究提出在每个代理的本地内存缓冲区中存储过往任务的样本子集，并基于多目标优化框架将这些历史信息融入当前学习过程，使参数更新同时兼顾当前任务与历史任务的损失函数。该方案的关键在于通过合理的多目标优化建模，实现对当前任务与历史任务知识的联合优化，从而缓解遗忘现象。理论分析表明，在对个体代价函数及梯度噪声过程的一般假设下，该方法在均方误差（mean square error, MSE）意义下具有收敛性；更重要的是，通过邻近代理间的信息交互，去中心化协作学习能够利用局部观测数据和记忆缓冲区的多样性，显著降低网络平均均方偏差（mean-square deviation, MSD），提升整体性能。仿真结果验证了理论分析的有效性，证明该方法在减少遗忘和改善跨任务平均MSD方面具有显著优势。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10882
作者: Yara Zgheib,Marc Antonini,Roula Nassif
机构: 未知
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:In this work, we formulate decentralized continual learning within a multi-objective optimization framework. For a given inference task t (corresponding to a common minimizer shared by the cost functions of all agents), agents collecting data in a distributed and streamed manner are only allowed to perform local computations and to exchange information with neighboring agents over the underlying communication graph. As tasks evolve sequentially over time, agents must adapt to newly arriving tasks while retaining knowledge acquired from previously learned ones. This requirement leads to the wellknown stability plasticity dilemma, where stability refers to the ability to retain previous knowledge, while plasticity refers to the ability to learn and adapt to new tasks. To address the stability challenge, agents store subsets of samples from past tasks in local memory buffers. Then, through an appropriate multiobjective formulation, the stored information is incorporated into the learning process so that parameter updates account jointly for the current task and previously learned tasks. The proposed decentralized continual learning approach is analyzed in the mean square error sense under general assumptions on the individual cost functions and gradient noise processes. The analysis reveals that cooperation among agents improves the performance of continual learning. In particular, by exchanging information with neighboring agents, decentralized collaborative learning can exploit the diversity of locally observed data and memory buffers to improve the network average mean-square deviation (MSD) across tasks. Finally, simulations illustrate the theoretical findings and the effectiveness of the method in reducing forgetting and improving the average MSD across tasks.
[MA-12] RFChipAgent : Multi-Agent ic AI Flow for Analog/RF Chip Design
【速读】：该论文旨在解决模拟/射频（Analog/RF）电路设计中高度依赖人工、流程繁琐且效率低下的核心问题，尤其是在从Wi-Fi 7到6G等新兴通信标准推动下，对电路性能提出更高要求的背景下。其解决方案的关键在于提出首个基于大语言模型（LLM）的多智能体协同框架——RFChipAgent，通过四个技术支柱实现端到端自动化：1）采用多模态检索增强生成（RAG）系统结合私有文档级FAISS索引，从工程文档中高效提取设计知识；2）引入拓扑智能体进行拓扑选择，以及原理图与测试平台智能体自动完成电路及测试环境构建；3）构建闭环混合式电路尺寸优化引擎，融合树状帕尔岑估计器（TPE）与协方差矩阵自适应进化策略（CMA-ES），在仿真回路（simulator-in-the-loop）框架中评估候选方案；4）建立带信任评分的仿真数据库，累积已验证性能数据并驱动自适应优化模型迭代。实验验证表明，该方法可实现拓扑自动生成、面向规格的设计空间探索及仿真引导的优化，在显著降低设计工作量的同时保障签核级验证质量，为生成式人工智能驱动的多智能体电子设计自动化（EDA）在模拟/射频领域奠定了基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10858
作者: Awani Khodkumbhe,Yunfei Feng,Raj Rangarajan,Kevin Wang,Kamal Sahota
机构: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.(高通技术公司); UC Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校)
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
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Abstract:Analog/RF circuits remain the critical interface between digital computation and the physical world, and emerging standards from Wi-Fi 7 to 6G place stringent demands on them, yet analog/RF design remains one of the most labor-intensive steps in chip development. We present RFChipAgent, a first-of-its-kind multi-agent flow of large language model (LLM) agents for end-to-end analog/RF circuit design automation, in which AI agents collaboratively orchestrate the complete design flow under human supervision. RFChipAgent is built around four technical pillars. First, a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) subsystem with private per-document FAISS indexing extracts design knowledge from existing engineering documentation. Second, a topology agent drives topology selection, and a schematic and testbench agent automates circuit and testbench assembly. Third, a closed-loop hybrid circuit-sizing engine combines Tree-structured Parzen Estimator (TPE) and CMA-ES optimization, evaluating every candidate in a simulator-in-the-loop framework. Fourth, a trust-scored simulation database accumulates verified performance data and builds an adaptive optimization model that informs subsequent trials. We validate RFChipAgent on a family of GF22FDSOI 60 GHz wideband mm-wave low-noise amplifier (LNA) topologies, demonstrating automated topology generation, specification-driven design-space exploration, and simulator-guided optimization. Experimental results show substantial reductions in design effort while maintaining signoff-quality verification. This work establishes a foundation for LLM-driven multi-agent electronic design automation (EDA) for analog/RF circuits.
[MA-13] From Investigation Failures to Reliable SOC Agents : Understanding and Improving LLM -Based Alert Triage
【速读】：该论文旨在解决安全运营中心（SOC）在告警研判过程中面临的高误报率与漏检风险并存的核心问题：海量告警中多数为良性，而关键攻击事件可能因研判策略不当被错误忽略。其核心挑战在于如何有效指导生成式AI代理在多轮证据检索中确定“收集什么”和“何时判定调查充分”，从而避免过早关闭攻击告警。现有方法（包括单次工具调用、迭代检索、采样调查、自我审查及显式验证）均存在显著缺陷，实验表明其在多阶段攻击场景下的告警漏检率高达40.4%以上。研究发现，告警被误判为无害的主要原因包括：搜索无结果即放弃、同上下文复审未能产生净修正、以及关闭决策缺乏比升级更强的证据支持。为此，作者提出AIDA（对抗性调查与辩证分析）框架，其关键创新在于引入双代理机制——先由调查代理提出决策建议，再由独立挑战代理从不同推理上下文发起质疑，并通过独立裁判依据证据链进行裁决；同时采用追加式调查日志（Investigation Ledger）记录完整推理过程，确保可追溯性。该设计强化了证据要求，防止过早闭合，最终在相同测试集上将F1分数提升至0.958，误报率从40.4%降至3.1%，仅将18.4%的告警转交人工分析师，显著优于现有方法。研究表明，通过结构化证据获取与决策审查流程，可大幅增强智能体在复杂威胁研判中的可靠性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10608
作者: Saimon Amanuel Tsegai,Alex Kantchelian,Danfeng(Daphne)Yao,Peng Gao
机构: Virginia Tech (弗吉尼亚理工学院); Google (谷歌); North Carolina State University (北卡罗来纳州立大学)
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Security operations centers (SOCs) must triage large volumes of alerts, most of which are benign, while missed attacks can remain uninvestigated. Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents can retrieve evidence during triage, but it remains unclear how reasoning strategies determine what to gather and when an investigation is sufficient to close an alert. We study five representative approaches spanning single-pass tool use, iterative retrieval, sampled investigations, self-review, and explicit verification. To support this study, we build ALERT-BENCH, an interactive benchmark that replays enterprise telemetry through a live SIEM and requires each system to retrieve evidence. Across 1,247 alerts from a multi-stage attack scenario, every approach missed at least 40.4% of attack-related alerts. Trace analysis shows that attack alerts are more likely to be dismissed when searches return no records, same-context review has negative net correction, and dismissal receives no consistently stronger investigation than escalation. Based on these findings, we further design AIDA (Adversarial Investigation and Dialectical Analysis), a multi-agent framework that requires an explicit proposed decision before independent challenge and stronger evidentiary requirements before dismissal. AIDA preserves investigation history in an append-only Investigation Ledger and keeps the challenge in a separate reasoning context. A separate Judge adjudicates the proposed decision and challenge against evidence, resolving the alert or requesting another round when evidence is missing. On the same alerts, AIDA achieves an F1 score of 0.958, compared with 0.371-0.744 for the studied approaches, and reduces the false-negative rate from 40.4% to 3.1% while escalating 18.4% of alerts to analysts. These results show that structuring evidence retrieval and decision review can substantially improve agentic SOC triage.
[MA-14] An Embodied Multiagent Framework Based on Token Communications for Cooperative ISAC
【速读】：该论文旨在解决低空经济背景下，由具身无人机（embodied UAV）构成的智能感知与通信一体化（ISAC）系统中，因各无人机仅能获取局部观测信息而导致的协同效率低下问题。在动态环境中，若直接共享本地状态与意图，将产生高昂的信令开销并阻碍实时协调。为此，论文提出一种基于多智能体具身策略学习的状态-意图令牌通信（SI-TokCom）框架，其核心在于通过预训练的码本实现对局部状态与意图的紧凑化令牌表达，使无人机在仅依赖本地观测和接收的令牌信息基础上，联合学习令牌的选择与组合以及物理控制动作，从而在满足通信与感知速率约束的前提下，最小化总推进能耗。仿真结果表明，该方案在通信与感知速率上分别达到集中式基准的98.9%和99.1%，相较本地基线分别提升5.0%和43.6%，同时几乎不增加推进能耗，验证了令牌通信（TokCom）在实现高效、低开销协同方面的显著潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11434
作者: Jiahe Guo,Jun Du,Chunxiao Jiang,Jintao Wang
机构: 未知
类目: ignal Processing (eess.SP); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:The emerging low-altitude economy demands unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for reliable connectivity and environmental awareness. In particular, embodied UAV agents offer a promising means of supporting autonomous operations through a closed loop linking perception, decision-making, and physical actions. However, each UAV has access only to local observations, and effective cooperation requires exchanging local states and intentions. Directly sharing such information can incur substantial signaling overhead and hinder timely coordination in dynamic environments. To deal with this problem, this paper investigates a cooperative ISAC network of embodied UAV agents and formulates a joint token communications (TokCom) and physical control problem to minimize total propulsion energy subject to communication and sensing rate requirements. Then, we propose a state–intent TokCom (SI-TokCom) framework driven by multi-agent embodied policy learning. Specifically, separate pretrained codebooks enable compact exchanges of local states and intentions, while UAV agents jointly learn to select and compose tokens and determine physical actions based on local observations and received tokens. Simulation results show that SI-TokCom achieves 98.9% and 99.1% of the centralized baseline’s communication and sensing rates, respectively. Compared with the local baseline, it improves the corresponding rates by 5.0% and 43.6%, respectively, with essentially unchanged propulsion energy. These results highlight the potential of TokCom for communication-efficient cooperation among embodied UAV agents in ISAC systems.
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[NLP-0] FastBench: Can Streaming VLMs Perceive High-Dynamic Real-World Streams?
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有视频大语言模型（VLM）评估基准在高动态场景下能力不足的问题，尤其针对实时视频流中因受限上下文预算所导致的时空感知失衡——即在有限计算资源下难以同时兼顾时间历史长度、空间分辨率与时间粒度。当前普遍采用的低帧率（1–2 FPS）稀疏采样会遗漏快速发生的事件，无法有效捕捉高动态视觉变化。为此，作者提出FastBench评测基准，其核心在于构建一个基于轨迹引导的端到端评测流程：通过高帧率（high-FPS）视频片段生成问答对，筛选仅在2 FPS下可回答的问题，并利用SAM3与CoTracker3的轨迹进行答案验证，再经三轮人工审核确保质量。FastBench包含306个跨8个领域、6种能力、涵盖前向、即时与后向时间范围的问答对，并附有人工标注的证据区间。解决方案的关键创新在于提出的训练无关基线ProactiveFrame，该方法通过文本标记动态调节输入帧率，采用双层滑动窗口机制，在保留近期高帧率观测的同时对历史帧进行稀疏化降采样。实验表明，即使在24 FPS下，最强模型Gemini-3.5-Flash的准确率也仅为50.7%，而Qwen3-VL-8B在帧率提升后性能虽有改善但迅速饱和，且ProactiveFrame虽优于均匀稀疏采样，但仍显著落后于理想化的基于轨迹的聚焦策略，揭示当前VLM难以仅从视频流本身判断何时需要更高时间分辨率，凸显了高动态感知建模的挑战。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12427
作者: Yuxuan Hu,Weikang Shi,Yang Bo,Xudong Lu,Xintong Guo,Shuhan Li,Yuyang He,Huankang Guan,Peiwen Sun,Yunqiao Yang,Wenbo Li,Rui Liu,Hongsheng Li
机构: CUHK MMLab(香港中文大学多媒体实验室); Huawei Research(华为研究院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Streaming Video Large Language Models (VLMs) enable continuous video understanding, yet existing benchmarks focus on low-dynamic scenarios. Under bounded context budgets, models must balance temporal history, spatial resolution, and temporal granularity; sparse sampling at 1–2 FPS misses fast events. We introduce FastBench to evaluate high-dynamic perception in real-world video streams. Its trajectory-grounded pipeline combines QA generation from high-FPS clips, filtering of questions answerable at 2 FPS, answer verification using SAM3 and CoTracker3 trajectories, and three rounds of human inspection. FastBench contains 306 QA pairs across eight domains, six capabilities, and forward, instant, and backward temporal scopes, with human-annotated evidence intervals. We also present ProactiveFrame, a training-free baseline that adjusts incoming frame rates through text tokens. A dual-tier sliding window retains recent high-FPS observations while downsampling older ones into sparse history. Experiments reveal substantial limitations: the strongest model, Gemini-3.5-Flash, scores only 50.7%. Denser sampling improves Qwen3-VL-8B from 32.9% at 2 FPS to 44.6% at 24 FPS, but gains saturate as history is compressed. ProactiveFrame outperforms sparse uniform sampling by 5.4 and 1.5 percentage points, yet remains well below oracle-guided focusing, showing that current VLMs struggle to determine from the stream alone when finer temporal perception is needed. FastBench provides a testbed for high-dynamic streaming video understanding. Code and data: this https URL.
[NLP-1] WOVEN: Weaving Visual World Modeling into Multimodal LLM s
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在空间、具身、物理及时间推理方面的系统性缺陷问题。研究提出，这些缺陷源于共同的视觉状态转换推理（visual transition reasoning）能力不足，并验证该能力可作为通用的训练基础，使不同模型能够从多样化的监督信号中学习并跨任务复用。其解决方案的关键在于构建了名为WOVEN的训练数据集与基准测试体系，该体系通过视频预训练生成模型生成的多样化、真实场景的视频回放，系统性地组织了20类场景、5类动作和8类推理类型共36,076个实例，支持对视觉转换推理能力的可控比较与评估。实验表明，尽管当前最先进的MLLMs在该任务上仍显著落后于人类表现且存在普遍性失败，但通过在WOVEN上进行多尺度训练，模型可习得可迁移的通用视觉世界建模能力：仅使用约2,000个样本子集即可在26个外部基准中提升22个，最高提升达27.3个百分点，且其数据可替代任务自身30%-50%的训练数据而保持相近性能。进一步分析得出优化训练策略：应依据所教授的推理操作选择监督信号，而非依赖动作、场景或领域；同时优先采用对视觉状态产生较大变化的样本以增强鲁棒性。本研究确立了视觉状态转换推理作为MLLM系统化视觉世界建模的可复用基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12417
作者: Zheyu Fan,Yue Zhang,Mingkai Deng,Kangrui Wang,Qineng Wang,Canyu Chen,Jie Hao,Xing Fan,Chenlei Guo,Eric P. Xing,Mohit Bansal,Manling Li
机构: Northwestern University; Carnegie Mellon University; UNC Chapel Hill; Amazon
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with spatial, embodied, physical, and temporal reasoning. We hypothesize that these failures reflect a shared deficit in visual transition reasoning, and test whether this capability can serve as a shared training primitive, one that different models can learn from different supervision sources and reuse across different tasks, with a systematic training recipe. Existing benchmarks document these deficits separately but do not support controlled comparisons across scenes, actions, and reasoning operations. We therefore introduce WOVEN, a training source and benchmark for visual transition reasoning that organizes transition supervision by scene, action, and reasoning type, using diverse, realistic rollouts from video-pretrained generative models: 36,076 examples across 20 scene types, 5 action types, and 8 reasoning types. We first evaluate 38 frontier MLLMs (e.g., GPT-5.4 and Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B) and find a substantial and systematic deficit: even the strongest models fall far below humans, and the failures recur across model families and persist with scale. We then train MLLMs at multiple scales on WOVEN and find that they learn a shared capability that transfers broadly: training subsets of only about 2,000 items each collectively improve 22 of 26 external benchmarks by up to 27.3 percentage points, and WOVEN data can replace 30-50% of a task’s own training data with comparable accuracy. Controlled comparisons further yield a training recipe for visual world modeling, validated prospectively on held-out benchmarks: select supervision by the reasoning operation it teaches rather than by the actions, scenes, or domains it shows, and prefer larger changes to the visual state for robustness. Our work establishes visual transition reasoning as a reusable foundation for systematic visual world-model training in MLLMs.
[NLP-2] Predicting Alignment Generalization with Value Representations
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）在对齐训练中存在的一致性泛化问题，即模型在特定价值观或行为规范上的微调可能引发在未见情境和价值体系下的不可预测行为。其核心挑战在于如何准确预测模型在某一价值目标上进行微调后，其行为在其他未包含于训练集中的价值维度上的泛化表现。解决方案的关键在于提出并构建“对齐泛化预测”任务，并通过大规模实证分析66个现代对齐目标中的价值观，验证基于模型上下文激活特征（model activations in context）的表示方法显著优于依赖文本描述的基线方法。实验表明，激活特征方法与泛化矩阵之间的相关性达到0.45，远高于文本描述方法的0.05。此外，研究进一步证明该表征可应用于下游任务，如评估多值对齐目标中各价值间的相似性，并发现其与模型鲁棒性显著相关；最终，研究揭示了潜在的、模型无关的价值空间，首次基于实证泛化动态建立了大语言模型价值观的分类体系。该工作强调了对价值观泛化机制的系统研究对于实现更可预测、可设计的模型行为的重要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12410
作者: Andy Liu,Mehar Bhatia,Karolina Stanczak,Mona Diab,Vered Shwartz,Daniel Fried
机构: Carnegie Mellon University (卡内基梅隆大学); Mila - Quebec AI Institute (蒙特利尔人工智能研究所); McGill University (麦吉尔大学); ETH Zurich (苏黎世联邦理工学院); ETH AI Center (苏黎世联邦理工学院人工智能中心); University of British Columbia (不列颠哥伦比亚大学); Vector Institute (向量研究所)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:LLM developers post-train their models to exhibit prosocial values and behavioral traits, which are enumerated in an alignment target. However, while recent post-training developments have yielded models that score highly on alignment evaluations, training models on sets of narrow behaviors still influences their behavior across unseen contexts and environments in unexpected ways. In this paper, we establish the task of alignment generalization prediction, i.e., predicting how fine-tuning a model to follow a given value changes its behavior across a wide range of held-out values. We conduct a large-scale analysis of alignment generalization effects across 66 values found in modern alignment targets, and benchmark representational techniques on the alignment generalization prediction task. We find that representations based on model activations when applying values in context significantly outperform methods based on textual descriptions of the values. Specifically, the best activations-based methods achieve correlations of 0.45 with our generalization matrix, compared with 0.05 from description-based baselines. We then show the applicability of representations that predict alignment generalization toward downstream tasks by using them to measure how similar the values in a multi-value alignment target are, which we find is significantly correlated with model robustness. Finally, we show initial evidence towards a shared, model-independent value space, which we use to develop the first taxonomy of LLM values grounded in empirical generalization dynamics. Our work demonstrates the importance of studying value generalization in LLMs and its application toward the more empirical design and training of model behavior.
[NLP-3] ViSkill: Reinforcing VLM Agents with Evolving Visual-Native Skills
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有技能增强型智能体在学习过程中因依赖文本中心表示而导致几何结构信息丢失的问题，以及视觉证据与策略优化之间相互独立、协同提升不足的局限性。其核心挑战在于如何有效保留环境中的空间布局与动作-状态映射的几何特征，并实现技能学习与策略优化之间的闭环协同进化。解决方案的关键在于提出一种视觉原生（visual-native）的技能学习框架ViSkill，通过将成功的交互经验编码为可直接被视觉语言模型（VLM）智能体访问的复合视觉技能卡（composite visual skill cards），实现对技能的可视化表征与高效复用。该框架在推理阶段利用检索到的技能指导行为决策，在奖励设计中引入技能相关信号以引导学习方向，同时将新获得的成功轨迹反向提炼回技能库，形成技能积累与策略改进相互促进的闭合反馈回路。此外，引入可选的冷启动机制进一步加速早期学习阶段的收敛。实验表明，ViSkill在Sokoban、FrozenLake和PrimitiveSkill等任务上取得了0.89的整体成功率（冷启动下达0.91），显著优于所有对比的专有及开源基线方法，并在收敛速度上超越标准PPO算法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12403
作者: Hongxing Li,Dingming Li,Yixin Li,Yong Du,Wenqi Zhang,Weiming Lu,Jun Xiao,Yueting Zhuang,Yongliang Shen
机构: Zhejiang University(浙江大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Skill-augmented agents improve sample efficiency by distilling successful trajectories into reusable strategies. Yet most existing approaches remain text-centric, linearizing spatial layouts and action-state correspondences into language that loses critical geometric structure. Recent efforts have begun incorporating visual evidence, but construct and update skills separately from policy optimization, leaving their mutual improvement underexplored. We propose ViSkill, a visual-native skill learning framework that encodes successful interactions as composite visual skill cards directly accessible to VLM agents. Retrieved skills guide both inference and reward shaping, while successful trajectories are distilled back into the library, forming a closed feedback loop in which skill accumulation and policy improvement reinforce each other. An optional cold-start mechanism further accelerates early-stage learning. Evaluated on Sokoban, FrozenLake, and PrimitiveSkill, ViSkill achieves an overall success rate of 0.89, rising to 0.91 with cold-start initialization, outperforming all evaluated proprietary and open-source baselines while converging faster than standard PPO. Our code is available at this https URL.
[NLP-4] SpaceCast-Bench: Evaluating Predictive Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models CEC
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有空间推理基准测试仅评估空间感知能力（即读取输入中已显式呈现的空间关系）的局限性，而无法衡量真实世界中所需的预测性空间推理能力——即基于观测构建场景、预判干预行为对场景的影响，并推断不可见结果的能力。其核心解决方案是提出首个直接且诊断性评估该能力的基准——SpaceCast-Bench，该基准基于“观察-变换-推理”框架，涵盖182个真实场景中的3,862个问题，覆盖16种任务类型及三个层次：静态感知、局部预测与全局预测，逐步要求模型具备场景理解、空间状态更新以及对未观测结果的关系推理能力。关键发现表明，桥接视角（bridge views）对于整合分散的观测信息至关重要，且显式的三维证据比生成的输出图像或视频更能稳定提升模型表现。通过在程序化生成的数据上进行微调，Qwen3-VL-4B模型在该基准上的准确率从34.0%显著提升至65.7%，并在六个跨域基准上实现整体性能提升，验证了该方法的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12402
作者: Hongxing Li,Jinyue Su,Dingming Li,Wenqi Zhang,Weiming Lu,Jun Xiao,Yueting Zhuang,Yongliang Shen
机构: Zhejiang University (浙江大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Existing spatial reasoning benchmarks mainly test spatial perception: reading off relations already visible in the input. Yet real-world spatial intelligence demands predictive spatial reasoning: constructing a scene from observations, anticipating how an intervention changes it, and reasoning about the unseen outcome. We introduce SpaceCast-Bench, the first benchmark to directly and diagnostically evaluate this capability. Built around an observe-transform-infer framework, its 3,862 questions from 182 real-world scenes span 16 task types at three levels: static perception, local prediction, and global prediction, progressively requiring scene understanding, spatial state updating, and relational inference over unobserved outcomes. Evaluating 21 models exposes a stark gap: the strongest model reaches only 58.0% against 87.2% human performance, while spatially specialized models remain near random chance. Controlled analyses further reveal that bridge views are critical for integrating distributed observations, and that explicit 3D evidence benefits models more reliably than generated outcome images or videos. Fine-tuning on our programmatically generated data lifts Qwen3-VL-4B from 34.0% to 65.7% with macro-average gains across six out-of-domain benchmarks.
[NLP-5] Long Text to Predictive Features: LLM -Guided Blockwise Feature Engineering via Executable Program Search
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决工业风险控制（industrial risk-control）系统中如何高效利用长文本中的非结构化信息以提升预测性能的问题。传统方法依赖结构化数据建模，但大量潜在价值信息仍隐藏于未加工的长文本中；而通过人工特征工程提取这些信息成本高昂，若在实时推理阶段调用大语言模型（LLM）则难以满足部署效率要求。为此，本文提出一种基于大语言模型引导的离线特征构建框架——LLM-BlockFE，其核心在于将长文本转化为可执行的特征程序（feature programs），从而在在线推理时无需调用LLM，实现高效部署。该方案的关键创新包括：1）采用增量式、不可变代码块（immutable code blocks）组合方式构造特征程序；2）引入基于深度校准信用分配的块级回滚机制，缓解传统贪心搜索易陷入局部最优的问题；3）通过交错并行多条独立搜索轨迹，并共享各轨迹探索方向的固定描述，有效减少冗余搜索。最终生成的特征程序被冻结并部署至下游预测模型。实验结果表明，在两个公开和两个私有数据集上，LLM-BlockFE相较最强基线在全量数据下实现了0.0069至0.0358的绝对AUC提升；在五个实际金融风控应用上线后监控显示，相较原有手工设计策略，KS指标提升了0.02至1.56个百分点，验证了该方法在真实场景中的有效性与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12390
作者: Ziming Dai,Dabiao Ma,Ziheng Guo,Jack Dong,Zimu Zhou
机构: City University of Hong Kong (香港城市大学); Qfin Holdings, Inc. (北京齐富控股有限公司); Tianjin University (天津大学); Carnegie Mellon University (卡内基梅隆大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Industrial risk-control systems typically rely on structured-data models for efficient prediction, yet substantial valuable information remains embedded in unstructured long text. Extracting this information through manual feature engineering is labor-intensive, while requiring a large language model (LLM) to process every real-time input may not meet practical deployment requirements. To address this challenge, we propose LLM-BlockFE, an LLM-guided offline feature construction framework that converts long text into executable feature programs, thereby avoiding LLM calls during online inference. LLM-BlockFE constructs feature programs by incrementally appending immutable code blocks and evaluates candidate features using a downstream model. To address the tendency of conventional greedy search to become trapped in suboptimal solutions, our method introduces a block-level rollback mechanism based on depth-calibrated credit allocation and advances multiple independent search trajectories in an interleaved manner, reducing redundant exploration by sharing fixed descriptions of each trajectory’s exploration direction. After the search, the resulting programs are frozen and deployed to extract structured features for downstream prediction models. Across two public and two private datasets, LLM-BlockFE achieves absolute AUC improvements of 0.0069 to 0.0358 over the strongest baseline on each dataset in the full-dataset comparison. Post-launch monitoring across five deployed financial risk-control applications shows absolute KS improvements of 0.02 to 1.56 percentage points over the existing manually designed strategy.
[NLP-6] Latent Core Tokenizer: Compress but Meaningfully
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有分词器（Tokenizer）在多语言场景下因过度追求压缩效率而导致词汇表容量分配不均的问题，即紧凑的词汇表并不保证在不同语言间实现均衡的表示能力。其核心解决方案是提出一种无语言依赖的隐式核心分词器（Latent Core Tokenizer, LCT），关键在于将语言结构发现与词汇构建过程解耦：LCT首先利用最小描述长度（Minimum Description Length）、基于熵的边界信号以及形态学约束（morphotactic constraints）识别出可复用的语言学单元，再基于这些结构化发现构建共享词汇表。实验表明，在104种语言上使用20万词元的词汇量时，LCT在降低词元歧义性（fertility）和提升形态得分（MorphScore）方面优于BPE、Unigram及对称感知的BPE；在四个多语言下游任务中，其综合得分分别较上述方法提升1.48、1.83和2.00点。研究结果表明，单纯优化压缩性能无法预测表示质量，强调了基于形态学驱动的结构发现机制以及频率分配策略在跨语言词汇表构建中的关键作用。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12376
作者: Felermino D. M. A. Ali,Millicent Ochieng,Ogbemi Ekwejunor-Etchie,Ade Famoti,Jacki O’Neill,Debjit Paul
机构: Microsoft Research Africa(微软研究院非洲); Microsoft Research Accelerator(微软研究院加速器); Microsoft Research India(微软研究院印度)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Tokenizers are commonly optimized for compression, but a compact vocabulary does not necessarily distribute its capacity evenly across languages. We introduce the Latent Core Tokenizer (LCT), a language-agnostic approach that separates structural discovery from vocabulary construction. LCT uses Minimum Description Length, entropy-based boundary signals, and morphotactic constraints to identify reusable linguistic units before constructing a shared vocabulary. Across 104 languages with a 200K-token vocabulary, LCT achieves lower fertility and higher MorphScore than BPE, Unigram, and parity-aware BPE, while maintaining comparable cross-lingual disparity in tokenization cost. Across four multilingual downstream benchmarks, LCT improves aggregate score by 1.48, 1.83, and 2.00 points over BPE, Unigram, and parity-aware BPE, respectively. Our findings show that compression alone does not predict representation quality and highlight the importance of morphology-driven structural discovery and how frequency is used to allocate the final vocabulary across languages.
[NLP-7] OnTrack: Real-Time Monitoring and Intervention in LLM Agent Trajectories via Streaming Structure-Aware Optimal Transport
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）代理在实际应用中因自主执行而引发的成本与安全问题，特别是在缺乏有效实时监控机制的情况下，可能导致不可逆操作、资源浪费及潜在风险。现有解决方案要么依赖额外的监护代理进行全程监控（增加延迟与开销），要么采用事后日志分析（无法及时干预）。针对这一痛点，本文提出OnTrack——一种流式监控机制，通过将代理当前执行步骤及其依赖关系与已记录的成功运行轨迹进行实时比对，在每一步约1毫秒内完成异常检测，实现即时告警或中断。其核心创新在于：在不同数据可访问性条件下（从完整历史运行与工具模式到仅依赖步骤日志），OnTrack具备渐进式的监测能力，涵盖计划违规识别、循环检测、执行停滞及重复调用等行为。实验基于SWE-bench任务轨迹验证表明，仅使用前8步信息，OnTrack在区分失败与成功轨迹方面优于内容相似性方法（AUROC提升0.057）；结合中止策略后，可节省约18%的计算资源，且83%的被中断运行确属失败路径（6次中5次正确拦截），证明了其高效性与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12375
作者: Babak Barazandeh,Connor Swanson,Chinmay Kulkarni,Nikhil Mungel
机构: Cribl AI Research Lab
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Agents are deployed in applications from trip planners and stock trading to IT incident triage. In most cases, LLM agents work autonomously with minimal rule-based safeguarding, leading to cost and safety issues from irreversible actions. Recent works resolve this either by using a safeguard agent to monitor behavior or evaluating logs post-hoc. The first adds cost and latency to every step; the second delivers its verdict after the run, when tokens are burned and damage is done. To overcome this, we propose OnTrack, a streaming monitoring mechanism that compares an agent’s steps and dependencies against recorded successful runs to alert users or block the agent in about a millisecond per step. We study this problem in three regimes of decreasing access: full reference access (historical runs and tool schemas), intermediate access (only tool schemas), and no prior knowledge (only step logs as generated). Expectation of OnTrack’s monitoring capabilities reduces as data access drops, ranging from plan violation detection to identifying loops, stalls, and repeated tool calls. Finally, we evaluate OnTrack using SWE-bench trajectories. Based on the first 8 steps, our method ranks failing trajectories below succeeding ones better than content similarity approaches (+0.057 AUROC). With an abort policy, we save about 18% of compute that would be burned on failing runs, where 83% of interrupted runs were actually heading to failure (5 out of 6 aborts were correct).
[NLP-8] Which Skill to Distill? SGUID: Selecting a Compact Skill Bank for Model-Skill Co-Evolution
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（LLM）在推理阶段通过技能（Skill）增强性能时，因盲目使用全部检索到的技能而导致效率低下与性能不稳定的问题。现有方法通常基于语义相关性从技能库中检索技能，并将其作为推理时的补丁或用于模型蒸馏，但忽略了单个技能的实际有效性，导致大量冗余甚至有害的技能被引入，影响训练稳定性与最终性能。本文提出SGUID方法，其核心在于通过动态评估技能在训练过程中是否持续提供有效的学习信号，来选择一个紧凑且高价值的技能子集进行蒸馏。该方法的关键创新在于引入“技能选择”机制，确保仅保留对模型提升有实际贡献的技能，从而实现模型与技能的协同进化。实验表明，在四个来自Olmo和Qwen系列的模型上，仅蒸馏6个精选技能即可达到甚至超越全技能库蒸馏的效果，且所需技能库规模最多缩小至原来的1/11；在第二轮蒸馏中，通过更新模型生成的新候选技能池再次筛选出3个有效技能，使Qwen3-8B模型在基准测试上从64.3%提升至66.3%。相比之下，不加筛选地直接融合所有技能会导致性能下降，而采用SGUID的选择机制则显著提升了模型稳定性与性能增益，验证了技能选择是实现稳定模型-技能共演化的核心机制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12367
作者: Yuhan Liu,Xiyao Ma,Zhongkai Sun,Xu Han,Chengyuan Ma,Benjamin Z. Yao,Chenlei Guo
机构: New York University (纽约大学); Amazon(亚马逊)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Skills, reusable procedural guidance added at inference, can substantially improve LLM downstream performance (Li et al., 2026). Prior work retrieves skills from a bank by semantic relevance, then uses them as inference-time patches or for model distillation. The individual utility of each skill, however, is largely neglected. We first show that, in on-policy distillation where skill-conditioned policies serve as teachers, fewer than 25% of retrieved skills provide useful distillation signals. We then propose SGUID, a method for selecting a compact subset of skills for distillation. SGUID retains a skill only if it consistently yields effective learning signals during training. The selected skills are then distilled to produce a better model. Our results show that not all skills are worth distilling. Across four models from the Olmo and Qwen families, distilling 6 selected skills matches or exceeds full-bank distillation in mean avg@12 on three of the four models, and on all four after a second round that distills 3 newly selected skills, while the full banks are up to 11x larger. Importantly, SGUID supports stable model-skill co-evolution: after a distillation round, a new candidate bank is curated from the updated model’s rollouts, and SGUID selects which skills to internalize next. In the second round, this loop selects 3 new skills and improves Qwen3-8B from 64.3% to 66.3%. The selection step is essential for stability: on Qwen3-4B, naively updating the model with unfiltered skills degrades performance, including a 0.3 percentage point drop on HMMT25, whereas SGUID improves HMMT25 by 0.5 points after the first round and 1.1 points after the second. These results identify skill selection as the key mechanism for stable model-skill co-evolution.
[NLP-9] Cited but Not Consulted: A Counterfactual Audit of Legal Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在法律推理中对判决依据的依赖性评估问题，即当前大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在生成法律判决时频繁引用具体法条或判例，常被视作其决策受该法律依据驱动的证据。然而，论文通过控制案件事实不变，替换所引用的法律依据为无关条文，并分析模型隐藏状态中判决演化的动态变化，发现尽管模型在要求下能以66.7%–100%的概率正确命名法律依据，但当法律依据变更时，其判决结果随之改变的比例却极低（CaseHOLD上为0.0%–21.7%，ECHR和SCOTUS上为30.0%–76.7%，ContractNLI上为43.3%–50.0%），表明模型的判决并未真正依赖其所命名的法律依据。这一“命名正确但依赖不强”的现象在不同规模模型及专门优化的法律推理模型（基于LoRA的近似复现）中均未缓解。进一步的红队测试显示，模型对隐含于案件事实中的对抗性指令仍表现出高达73.3%–96.4%的响应率，远超其对法律依据变更的敏感度。研究结果表明，模型命名法律依据并不能有效反映判决对其的真实依赖关系，且判决本身仍易受隐蔽对抗性扰动影响。该结论在排除提示词噪声与采样偏差等干扰因素后依然成立，直接质疑了将生成式法律解释作为合规性或审计依据的可靠性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12361
作者: Saisab Sadhu,Shreeyans Arora,Pratinav Seth
机构: Lexsi Labs(莱克西实验室)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Large language models increasingly justify legal decisions by naming the statute or precedent behind a verdict, treated as evidence that the decision follows from it. We test this directly: holding case facts fixed, we substitute the named legal authority for an unrelated one and decode a model’s evolving verdict from its hidden states. Across seven open-weight models (8B-70B) and four benchmarks spanning judicial and contractual reasoning, when explicitly required to justify a verdict by naming the governing authority, models name the correct one in 66.7%-100% of generations, while the verdict changing when the authority changes is far less consistent: 0.0%-21.7% on CaseHOLD, 30.0%-76.7% on ECHR and SCOTUS, and 43.3%-50.0% on ContractNLI. Neither scale nor a purpose-built legal-reasoning model (a best-effort LoRA reproduction; Section 6) closes this gap. A red-teaming evaluation on five core models finds compliance with an adversarial instruction hidden in the case facts (73.3%-96.4%) exceeds verdict-swap sensitivity by a wide margin, holding without exception across model rankings. Naming a legal authority is thus a poor proxy for a verdict’s dependence on it, while the same verdict remains separately vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. Both findings replicate across checks ruling out prompt-wording noise and confounded sampling, and bear directly on the use of generated legal explanations as compliance or audit artefacts.
[NLP-10] Accurate but Not Humble: Evaluating Epistemic Humility in LLM Agents under Knowledge Conflict EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前智能体系统评估中对认知谦逊（epistemic humility, EH）关注不足的问题，即当检索到的证据与智能体先验信念相矛盾时，其是否能够识别冲突、采取适当行动并明确表达不确定性。现有评估体系主要聚焦任务成功率，难以揭示智能体在面对知识冲突时的真实认知行为。为此，论文提出以“识别-求解-升级”（Identify-Solve-Escalate, ISE）三个轨迹层面的行为维度来操作化衡量认知谦逊，并构建了两种冲突情境：受控冲突与多步执行过程中自然发生的冲突，分别配对无冲突对照组进行评估。研究发现，高任务准确率并不等同于高认知谦逊——部分高精度配置虽能识别冲突，却未在最终答案中传达未解决的不确定性；轨迹分析还显示，智能体常在早期阶段检测到冲突，但在后续步骤中未能持续或有效处理。此外，模型层面的干预虽可提升认知谦逊，但往往以牺牲任务准确率为代价，表明认知谦逊本质上是基础语言模型、智能体架构与评估环境之间相互作用的产物。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12360
作者: Kaiser Sun,Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez,Hongjun Liu,Jingyu Zhang,Jie Gao,Mark Dredze,Daniel Khashabi
机构: Johns Hopkins University (约翰霍普金斯大学); New York University (纽约大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:When retrieved evidence contradicts an agent’s prior beliefs, does it revise its answer, acknowledge uncertainty, or persist with an incorrect conclusion? Existing evaluations of agentic systems focus primarily on task success, offering limited insight into how agents handle such conflicts. We propose to evaluate agents on epistemic humility (EH): the agent’s willingness to recognize, act on, and communicate uncertainty during task execution. We operationalize EH through three trajectory-level behavioral dimensions: Identify, Solve, and Escalate (ISE). Through knowledge conflict, situations where the backbone language model’s parametric knowledge contradicts the evidence it encounters, or where two contextual sources disagree, we evaluate two conflict settings: (1) controlled conflict and (2) naturally occurring conflict during multi-step agentic execution, each paired with matched no-conflict controls. Evaluating four agents, we find that higher task accuracy does not necessarily correspond to greater epistemic humility: some high-accuracy configurations recognize conflicts during execution but do not communicate unresolved uncertainty in their incorrect final answers. Trajectory-level analysis further reveals that agents frequently detect conflicts in early steps of execution but fail to maintain or resolve them in later steps. Finally, we show that model-level interventions can improve EH, but often at the cost of task accuracy, suggesting that epistemic humility emerges from the interaction among the backbone model, agent harness, and evaluation environment.
[NLP-11] Overcoming Prior Barriers: Supervised Fine-Tuning under Long-Tail Distribution
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决监督微调（Supervised Fine-Tuning, SFT）中因预训练模型对不同概念支持程度不均而导致的性能偏差问题。具体而言，高频概念在预训练阶段已获得较强表征（即“头概念”），而低频概念（即“尾概念”）则因缺乏充分的预训练支持而难以有效学习。为量化这一现象，论文提出“先验障碍（prior barrier）”这一新概念，用于衡量预训练模型对竞争性概念相对于目标概念的支持强度，揭示了先验障碍呈现长尾分布特性：头概念具有较低先验障碍，而尾概念需克服更高的先验障碍才能实现有效微调。理论分析进一步推导出在长尾先验障碍下的预测风险上界，明确指出先验障碍与累积微调证据共同决定最终预测性能。针对此问题，论文提出PASS（Prior Barrier-Aware Supervised Tuning）方法，其核心在于基于参考概念构建可区分性证据，并动态评估每条指令对特定概念的贡献，进而自适应地将有限的指令选择预算分配给当前覆盖不足的概念。该方法实现了对“哪些指令更有效”和“何处需要额外监督”的联合优化。实验表明，PASS在四种骨干网络-预算组合设置下均显著优于七种先进指令选择方法，消融实验证明其自适应分配策略持续优于均匀分配。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12345
作者: Haohui Wang,Jiahao Xu,Wangzhi Zhan,Tong Zeng,Dongqi Fu,Hong Li,Swastik Roy,Naren Ramakrishnan,Chris North,Jian Kang,Yujun Yan,Dawei Zhou
机构: Virginia Tech (弗吉尼亚理工学院); Amazon(亚马逊); Meta(元); MBZUAI(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学); Dartmouth College (达特茅斯学院)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) adapts pretrained large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks, but the required concepts can receive substantially different levels of pretrained support. Frequent concepts are more likely to be well learned, whereas rare concepts may remain weakly represented. We introduce a novel notion named prior barrier to quantify how strongly the pretrained model supports competing concepts over the target concept. We observe that prior barriers follow a long-tail distribution, placing head and tail concepts at different starting points for SFT: head concepts face lower prior barriers, whereas tail concepts require additional instructions to overcome their higher prior barriers. Our theoretical analysis further derives a predictive risk bound for SFT under long-tail prior barriers, explicitly characterizing how the prior barrier and accumulated SFT evidence jointly determine predictive performance. Motivated by this prior barrier-dependent demand, we propose PASS, an adaptive SFT instruction selection method that constructs reference-derived concepts and estimates the distinguishing evidence provided by each instruction, and adaptively allocates the selection budget toward concepts that remain insufficiently covered under the current selection. In this way, PASS jointly considers which instructions can provide useful evidence and where additional supervision is needed under a limited budget. Experiments show that our method consistently outperforms seven state-of-the-art instruction selection methods on four backbone-budget settings. An ablation study further shows that PASS’s adaptive allocation consistently improves over uniform allocation.
[NLP-12] Can AI Agents Learn Their Way to the Top? Evaluating Heuristic Learning in a Long-Running Game Agent Competition
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在对抗性博弈中，如何从有限样本中学习并适应策略的难题，尤其针对传统方法在复杂规则和长时序决策场景下的表现不足。其核心解决方案是提出一种名为对抗性启发式学习（Adversarial Heuristic Learning, AHL）的新范式，将AI代理作为学习引擎，在保持模型权重不变的前提下，通过解读规则、选择对手、分析对局回放并迭代优化可执行的游戏策略与支撑软件。关键创新在于构建了AAArena基准，包含12个真实对抗性游戏及1,920个归档的人类程序，模拟真实竞赛评估流程，使代理能够在固定匹配与评估预算内自主完成策略修订。实验表明，基于Opus5.5与Claude Code的配置在12个游戏中获得6枚金牌，且对手选择与密集反馈机制显著促进策略改进；代理不仅能从自身对局（on-policy）回放中学习，还可从他人对局（off-policy）中汲取经验。研究揭示了当前生成式AI在博弈理解、策略实现及长时程策略规划方面仍面临挑战，同时验证了启发式学习在对抗性环境中的潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12341
作者: Kaisen Yang,Qingle Liu,Kejin Wang,Yicheng Zhao,Jieming Li,Shenghan Zheng,Ruize Yang,Bojun Yang,Heng Gong,Xiang Gao,Lanyue Zhang,Kaiyu Zhong,Zhuo Liu,Shaoxuan Li,Chengxi Li,Yong Yan,Weixuan Zhang,Tianwei Luo,Situ Wang,Youjie Zheng,Sihan Zhao,Shengyuan Wang,Huan-ang Gao,Jiazheng Xu,Xiaohui Xie,Wentao Han,Hongning Wang
机构: Tsinghua University (清华大学); College of AI, Tsinghua University (清华大学人工智能学院)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Adversarial games have driven advances from heuristic search to reinforcement learning, yet learning and adapting strategies from limited samples remain challenging. AI agents offer an alternative by turning game experience into revisions of executable policies. Building on heuristic learning (HL), we formalize Adversarial Heuristic Learning (AHL), a paradigm that uses AI agents as learning engines to refine game policies and supporting software while keeping model weights fixed. We introduce AAArena, a benchmark comprising 12 authentic adversarial games and 1,920 archived human programs, with an evaluation protocol modeled on real-world game competitions. Agents interpret rules, choose opponents, analyze replays, and revise game agents to achieve their highest ranking within fixed match and evaluation budgets. We evaluate \valcompletedmodels model and harness configurations: Opus5.5 with Claude Code earns 6 gold medals, while no evaluated configuration tops the remaining 6 human ladders. Performance is generally weaker in games with more complex rule specifications. Further experiments show that opponent selection and dense feedback support policy improvement, and that agents learn from both on-policy replays of their own matches and off-policy replays of other players’ matches. These results highlight HL’s potential in adversarial games and identify persistent challenges in game understanding, strategy implementation, and long-horizon policy development.
[NLP-13] VFold: Symmetry-Aware Cross-Layer Value Cache Compression
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）在长上下文场景下，由于键值（Key-Value, KV）缓存占用大量显存而导致的内存瓶颈问题。现有解决方案多依赖于对模型架构的修改，或引入显著计算开销，难以在实际部署中广泛应用。本文提出一种对称感知的值缓存合并策略（symmetry-aware value cache merging strategy），通过挖掘不同层间值缓存的内在对称性与相似性，在不改变模型架构的前提下实现缓存压缩，有效降低内存占用，同时避免解码性能下降。该方法可与现有缓存压缩技术（如高比率量化或键缓存剪枝）无缝组合，形成协同效应，进一步提升压缩比，且附加开销极小。研究揭示了值缓存中存在显著的未利用容量，为在内存受限条件下扩展上下文窗口提供了一种简单而高效的优化路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12338
作者: Neha Verma,Sungwon Kim,Kenton Murray,Kevin Duh
机构: Johns Hopkins University (约翰霍普金斯大学); George Mason University (乔治梅森大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:While caching key-value (KV) states accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) decoding, this cache can dominate memory usage at long context lengths. One solution is to compress this memory by exploiting inter-layer cache similarities. However, most existing techniques necessitate architectural changes to LLMs and incur substantial overhead. In this work, we propose a symmetry-aware value cache merging strategy that reduces cache memory while avoiding both harmful performance degradation and architectural overhead during decoding. Furthermore, we show that this approach can be exploited alongside existing cache compression techniques, composing with high-ratio quantization or key cache pruning to reach compression ratios that neither method reaches alone, with minimal additional cost. Ultimately, our findings reveal a major source of underutilized capacity in the value cache, offering a simple yet highly effective direction for scaling context windows under memory constraints.
[NLP-14] SparseDecoding: Decoding-Aware Pruning for Accurate and Efficient LLM Inference
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）推理解码阶段因内存瓶颈导致的高延迟问题。现有基于海森矩阵（Hessian）的逐层无训练剪枝方法虽能通过减少解码时从内存读取的非零参数数量来缓解此问题，但其普遍依赖预收集的自然文本序列计算海森矩阵，而实际解码过程中模型使用的是自生成的标记（token），导致输入分布发生偏移（distribution shift）。这种偏差使得剪枝所依据的激活分布与实际生成过程中的激活分布不一致，进而损害剪枝后模型的性能。此外，多数现有剪枝方法仅针对稀疏矩阵-矩阵乘法（SpMM）优化，难以有效支持主导解码过程的稀疏矩阵-向量乘法（SpMV）操作，限制了实际加速效果。为解决上述问题，本文提出一种面向解码的系统性剪枝框架SparseDecoding，其关键在于：在算法层面，通过在密集模型自回归生成（排除预填充阶段）过程中采集各层激活，构建校准矩阵，使剪枝目标与真实解码激活分布对齐；在系统层面，设计了一种基于位掩码索引与固定步长遍历的优化N:M稀疏矩阵-向量核，显著提升SpMV运算效率。大量实验结果表明，该方法在多个代表性LLM（如Llama-3.1-8B、Llama-3.3-70B、Qwen3-14B/32B）上均优于标准固定文本校准方法，在长文本生成任务中表现更优，并在A100 GPU上实现了最高达1.48倍的端到端解码速度提升。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12327
作者: Qitong Wang,Xinwei Niu,Mingluo Su,Shanwei Zhao,Shiai Zhu,Huan Wang
机构: Westlake University(西湖大学); Ant Group(蚂蚁集团)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:The memory-bound nature of the decoding stage of large language model (LLM) inference incurs significant latency. Layer-wise training-free network pruning approaches guided by the Hessian have been a prominent solution to this problem, as pruning reduces the number of nonzero parameters read from memory during decoding. Nevertheless, typical methods in this line compute the Hessian using pre-collected natural sequences, whereas the model is fed self-generated tokens during decoding, creating a distribution shift between the two sequences. The Hessian calculated on the natural sequence is different from that calculated on the generated sequence. We observe that this discrepancy causes the activation distribution during generation to deviate from that used for pruning, further hurting the pruned model performance. Moreover, most existing LLM pruning methods that bring actual speedup primarily target the sparse matrix-matrix (SpMM) multiplication, providing limited support for the sparse matrix-vector (SpMV) operations, which dominate decoding. To solve these problems, we introduce SparseDecoding, a principled decoding-aware pruning framework tailored for accurate and efficient LLM decoding. Specifically, at the algorithmic axis, SparseDecoding constructs calibration matrices from layer-wise activations collected during the dense-model autoregressive generation, excluding prefill, thereby aligning the pruning objective with the decoding activations. At the system axis, we develop an optimized N:M sparse matrix-vector kernel with bitmask indexing and fixed-step traversal. Substantial empirical results on representative LLMs (Llama-3.1-8B, Llama-3.3-70B, Qwen3-14B / 32B) demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms standard fixed-text calibration on the long-form generation benchmarks while achieving up to 1.48x end-to-end wall-clock decoding speedup on A100 GPUs.
[NLP-15] Verdict Without the Rule: Diagnosing and Auditing Regulatory Rule Sensitivity in LLM Compliance Systems
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在合规性判断系统中对监管规则依赖性的可信度问题，即当前系统普遍假设模型的裁决结果严格依赖于所输入的规则，但这一假设是否成立尚不明确。研究通过在五个大语言模型和二十个监管与平台政策领域中进行实验，采用“规则扰动”方法：在保持案件内容不变的前提下，删除、替换或否定所给定的规则，观察模型裁决是否发生变化（OCS，Outcome Change Score）或其内部合规表征是否发生偏移（ICS-delta）。结果显示，多数模型的裁决对规则的显著扰动表现出高度鲁棒性，即裁决结果几乎不变；尤其值得注意的是，作为“守门模型”（guard model）的定制化规则适应版本，在规则敏感性与准确性方面均表现最差，准确率仅51%，远低于通用模型的90%-92%。这表明模型的决策并非真正基于规则，而更可能依赖于训练数据中的模式或上下文线索。尽管改进提示工程或直接干预内部表示仍无法弥合此差距，说明单纯提高准确率不足以证明裁决是基于所提供规则的。因此，该研究的关键发现在于：当前合规性模型的输出缺乏对规则的实质性依赖，其“合规性”判断可能源于非规则驱动的归纳偏差，从而揭示了现有系统在可解释性与规则依从性方面的根本缺陷。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12313
作者: Saisab Sadhu,Aadit Sengupta,Vinay kumar Sankarapu,Pratinav Seth
机构: Lexsi Labs; Vinay Kumar Sankarapu; Pratinav Seth
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Large language model compliance systems are deployed on the assumption that a verdict depends on the regulatory rule it is given. We test this directly across five models and 20 regulatory and platform-policy domains: delete, swap, or negate the governing rule while holding the case fixed, and check whether the verdict changes (OCS) or the model’s internal representation of compliance shifts at all (ICS-delta). Neither moves much: models’ verdicts are often invariant to substantial perturbations of the supplied rule, and the guard model, evaluated here under a custom-rule adaptation of its native taxonomy, is the least rule-sensitive and least accurate of the five, barely above chance (51%, versus 90-92% for general-purpose models). This reflects easy cases more than blanket neglect: on cases where deleting the rule changes a previously correct model prediction, models do track it closely. Neither better prompting nor direct intervention on the model’s internal representations closes this gap. Accuracy alone does not establish that a compliance verdict is grounded in the supplied rule.
[NLP-16] HarnessSQL: Harness-Native Training for SQL Agents in Realistic Database Environments
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决文本到SQL（Text-to-SQL）模型在训练与部署阶段存在的严重“训练-推理不匹配”问题：现有模型通常在静态、单轮的监督范式下训练，直接将自然语言问题映射为固定SQL查询，而真实场景中的数据库智能体（Database Agent）需通过状态化、多轮交互的动态过程与实时数据库协同工作，包括模式探索、探针查询执行、错误诊断及假设修正等。这种执行环境（execution harness）仅在推理阶段引入，导致模型缺乏对交互流程的充分学习。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种原生适配执行框架（harness-native）的后训练框架HarnessSQL，该框架在监督微调（SFT）和强化学习（RL）阶段均完整保留了多轮交互结构，具体包括构建隔离且可执行的数据库环境、引入隐藏的执行验证机制（execution oracle）、将教师模型直接部署于目标SQL执行框架内部，并仅保留经验证的完整交互轨迹用于全序列SFT，再结合基于执行结果的奖励信号进行强化学习。实验表明，HarnessSQL显著提升了紧凑型模型在Spider 2.0-SQLite上的执行准确率，如Qwen3-8B从15.5%提升至45.2%，Qwen3-14B从22.2%提升至54.8%，同时在分布外的交互式基准（如BIRD-Interact和LiveSQLBench）上也展现出良好的泛化能力。研究证明，在真实执行框架内直接训练数据库智能体是掌握复杂、长时序数据库任务的核心前提。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12274
作者: Haolin Yang,Jipeng Zhang,Jian Xie,Shuaishuai Gong,Sirui Han,Yike Guo
机构: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (香港科技大学); Microsoft Research; Tsinghua University (清华大学); University of Macau (澳门大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Text-to-SQL models are commonly trained to map questions directly to static queries, whereas real-world database agents operate through stateful, multi-turn interaction with live databases – inspecting schemas, executing probe queries, diagnosing errors, and revising hypotheses. This creates a critical train-deploy mismatch, as the execution harness that mediates this interaction is introduced only at inference time. To bridge this gap, we propose HarnessSQL, a harness-native post-training framework that preserves the full interaction structure throughout both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. HarnessSQL builds isolated, executable database environments paired with hidden execution oracles, rolls out teachers directly inside the target SQL harness, and retains only verified trajectories for full-sequence SFT, followed by execution-reward RL. Across Spider 2.0-SQLite, HarnessSQL dramatically boosts the execution accuracy of compact models, raising Qwen3-8B from 15.5% to 45.2% and Qwen3-14B from 22.2% to 54.8%, while transferring effectively to out-of-distribution interactive benchmarks such as BIRD-Interact and LiveSQLBench. Our findings demonstrate that training database agents directly within their execution harness is essential for mastering complex, long-horizon database workflows.
[NLP-17] EgoVoice: Proactive Spoken Assistance from Egocentric Multimodal Streams EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决连续第一人称视频流中主动式可穿戴增强现实（AR）助手在何时发言及说什么内容的联合决策问题，即如何从持续的视觉与音频数据中实现适时、有意义的主动语音指导。现有系统虽在主动视频助手、对话系统及第一人称任务理解方面取得进展，但尚未有效整合“何时干预”与“何内容干预”的协同决策机制。其解决方案的关键在于构建EgoVoice框架，通过源分离与语音重建技术从真实人类导师的全息辅助（HoloAssist）视频记录中提取纯净音频流，并将每段视频会话转化为模型需在每个时间点自主判断是否保持沉默或提供语音指导的格式化数据集。在此基础上，利用多模态大语言模型（LLM）进行微调，并结合直接偏好优化（Direct Preference Optimization, DPO）进一步提升模型的主动干预行为表现。实验结果表明，相较于零样本基线模型，EgoVoice在干预时机准确性、内容相关性及用户偏好度方面均显著提升，验证了该框架在实现高质量主动第一人称语音助手方面的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12248
作者: Heeseung Kim
机构: University of Seoul(首尔大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Sound (cs.SD)
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Abstract:Wearable augmented reality (AR) assistants are moving toward continuous real-world interaction, where they perceive the user’s activity through first-person video and audio and provide timely spoken guidance without being explicitly asked. While proactive video assistants, spoken dialog systems, and egocentric task understanding have each advanced rapidly, existing systems do not address the joint problem of deciding when to speak and what to say from continuous first-person streams. We introduce EgoVoice, a framework for training and evaluating proactive egocentric spoken assistants. From HoloAssist video recordings of real human instructors, we construct clean audio streams through source separation and speech resynthesis, and convert each video session into a format where the model must decide at each moment whether to remain silent or provide spoken guidance. We fine-tune an omni-modal LLM with our data, and further improve its proactive intervention behavior with direct preference optimization. Experiments across closed and open-source models show that existing systems rarely produce well-timed, meaningful proactive interventions, while EgoVoice yields clear improvements in intervention timing, content relevance, and human preference over the zero-shot backbone.
[NLP-18] okenRouter: Efficient Serving System for Token-Level LLM Routing NEURIPS2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在生成式AI（Generative AI）服务中，基于令牌级别（token-level）路由的大型语言模型（LLM）推理所面临的系统效率与开发复杂性问题。现有系统普遍基于单模型假设，在实施细粒度令牌级路由时，因步骤不同步（step desynchronization）和频繁的批处理准入延迟而严重制约了推理吞吐量，且对开发者而言实现成本过高。为应对这些挑战，论文提出TokenRouter系统，其核心在于采用“请求为中心编程、模型为中心执行”的设计范式：开发者以单个请求视角定义路由逻辑，而运行时则为每个模型启动独立子服务器，并异步调度请求。各子服务器采用基于数学吞吐量模型推导出最优超参数的延迟批处理调度器（delayed-batching scheduler），有效缓解了任务调度不一致问题。实验表明，相较于现有系统，TokenRouter在多种路由算法、工作负载及模型组合下实现了2.01至64.15倍的解码吞吐量提升，显著推动了令牌级路由在实际服务中的效率边界。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12242
作者: Tianyu Fu,Tengxuan Liu,Ruoxi Wang,Yixin Dong,Yi Ge,Yichen You,Yu Wang
机构: Tsinghua University (清华大学); Carnegie Mellon University (卡内基梅隆大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language model (LLM) routing distributes inference work across different models, advancing the cost-quality Pareto frontier of LLM serving. While coarse-grained routing at the session or query level has been widely adopted in production systems, recent algorithmic work shows that fine-grained token-level routing can yield substantial efficiency and quality gains. However, efficiently serving token-level routed inference poses significant challenges to existing systems. Built on single-LLM assumptions, current systems suffer from severe step desynchronization and frequent batch admission delays under token-level routing, and they also impose high implementation complexity on developers. To address these challenges, we design TokenRouter, an efficient and developer-friendly serving system for token-level routed LLM inference. TokenRouter follows the principle of request-centric programming, model-centric execution: developers describe routing logic from the perspective of a single request, while the runtime launches a subserver for each LLM and dispatches requests asynchronously. Each subserver employs a delayed-batching scheduler, whose optimal hyperparameters are derived from a mathematical throughput model of the system. Across diverse routing algorithms, workloads, and model pairs, TokenRouter achieves 2.01-64.15x higher decoding throughput than existing systems, substantially advancing the serving efficiency of token-level LLM routing. Our code is available at this https URL.
[NLP-19] Language Models as AI Research World Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式AI研究代理（AI research agents）在实验设计与执行能力不匹配的问题，即其提出实验方案的能力远超在真实环境中的执行能力，导致在有限实验预算下难以实现持续的自我改进。核心挑战在于如何高效预测实验干预（intervention）的结果，以优化实验选择并提升自研效率。论文提出的解决方案是将语言模型作为研究世界模型（Research World Models, RWMs），通过学习真实实验经验来预测候选干预在不同研究环境中的结果。关键创新在于：利用来自多个研究环境的真实实验数据（涵盖预训练、后训练和推理阶段，总计超过17.1万小时的H100 GPU计算量），使RWM不仅能提升对同一环境中未见干预的预测性能（Spearman相关性提升+0.27），还能跨环境复用研究知识。实验证明，仅使用OLMo3、Marin和Nanochat的预训练经验，即可在Qwen3环境中将选择后悔值降低78%；在固定选择预算下的多轮自动研究（Autoresearch）任务中，具备环境内与跨环境研究知识的RWM分别使最优收益提升15.8%和11.6%。消融实验进一步表明，引入研究知识对干预排序的改进效果优于单纯更换模型或增加推理成本。这些结果验证了语言模型作为研究世界模型的有效性，并强调积累高质量实验数据对未来自主研究系统发展的关键作用。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12235
作者: Zijun Wang,Zewen Liu,Minhua Lin,Zhaotian Weng,Zhan Shi,Bing He,Yisi Sang,Dakuo Wang,Benoit Dumoulin,Wei Jin,Yuyin Zhou,Cihang Xie,Hanqing Lu
机构: Amazon(亚马逊); UC Santa Cruz(加州大学圣克鲁斯分校); Emory University(埃默里大学); Pennsylvania State University(宾夕法尼亚州立大学); UC Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:AI research agents automate the cycle of proposing, implementing, and evaluating experiments, opening a path toward recursive self-improvement. Yet their ability to propose experiments outpaces their capacity to execute them in real environments, making outcome prediction a key capability for sustained self-improvement under limited experimental budgets. We investigate language models as Research World Models (RWMs), which predict the outcomes of candidate interventions across research environments. Our evaluation draws on over 2,600 experimental records from nine research environments spanning pretraining, post-training, and inference, representing more than 171,000 H100 GPU-hours of experimentation. Research knowledge acquired from real experimental experience improves RWM predictions of unseen interventions within the same environment (Spearman +0.27), and can be reused across environments. For example, using only pretraining experience from OLMo3, Marin, and Nanochat, an RWM reduces selection regret in the Qwen3 environment by 78% compared with zero-experience setting. These benefits extend to multi-round Autoresearch under a fixed selection budget: RWMs with in-env and cross-env research knowledge increase the best gain achieved by 15.8% and 11.6%, respectively. Ablations across 13 language models used as RWMs show that adding research knowledge can improve intervention ranking more than changing models or increasing reasoning effort alone. These findings support language models as RWMs and motivate accumulating experimental data for future RWM training.
[NLP-20] DiffuPlex: Accelerating Full-Duplex Spoken Dialog Models via Rolling Masked Diffusion
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决全双工语音对话模型中因逐帧自回归推理导致的高计算开销问题，其核心挑战在于如何在保持交互流畅性与对话质量的前提下，降低模型骨干网络（backbone）的序列化计算负担。解决方案的关键是提出一种滚动掩码扩散框架——DiffuPlex，该框架通过单次骨干唤醒并行预测多个未来用户与助手语音帧，显著减少重复计算。DiffuPlex仅消耗预测结果中置信度较高的前缀部分，同时维持原始帧率的实时交互；当用户语音实际输入与预测发生偏差时，系统保留已播放的助手内容，仅修正未播放的未来部分。该方法设计了两种推理策略：DiffuPlex-LISTEN 在预测助手静音时提前消费未来帧，而 DiffuPlex-SPEAK 可进一步利用预测的助手语音以提升效率。实验表明，两者分别实现1.46×和1.59×的部署路径时钟加速，以及1.61×和1.80×的骨干语言模型（Core LM）加速，且所有推理调用均在80ms交互间隔内完成。人工评估显示，DiffuPlex-LISTEN 有效保持语音自然度与对话质量，而 DiffuPlex-SPEAK 在保留对话连贯性的同时，语音自然度略有下降。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12214
作者: Heeseung Kim
机构: University of Seoul(首尔大学); Seoul, Republic of Korea(韩国首尔)
类目: ound (cs.SD); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 41 pages, 11 figures, 18 tables. Preprint, under review. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Recent full-duplex spoken dialog models enable simultaneous listening and speaking, but fine-grained models still advance their backbone autoregressively at every interaction frame. We introduce DiffuPlex, a rolling masked diffusion framework that reduces this sequential computation by predicting multiple future user and assistant frames in a single backbone wake. DiffuPlex consumes only a confident prefix of each predicted future while interaction continues at the original frame rate. As user speech arrives, it checks the corresponding user predictions and, when the interaction diverges, preserves already played assistant content while revising only the unplayed future. We consider two inference policies over the same predictor: DiffuPlex-LISTEN consumes multiple future frames when they predict assistant silence, whereas DiffuPlex-SPEAK can also consume predicted assistant speech. Across full-duplex interaction and spoken-language evaluations, DiffuPlex substantially reduces sequential backbone computation while largely preserving interaction behavior and general capability. DiffuPlex-LISTEN and DiffuPlex-SPEAK achieve 1.46\times and 1.59\times deployment-path wall-clock speedups and 1.61\times and 1.80\times Core LM speedups, with all measured backbone invocations completing within the 80ms interaction interval. Human evaluation shows that LISTEN preserves speech naturalness and conversational quality, while SPEAK retains conversational quality with some degradation in speech naturalness.
[NLP-21] SciTBERT: A family of chronologically consistent language models for scientific and technological language processing
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有预训练生成式AI（Generative AI）模型在研究科学与技术发展的时间依赖性及档案特性时存在的局限性，特别是由于训练数据中固有的时间“前瞻偏差”（lookahead bias）和领域分布偏差所导致的建模失准问题。其核心解决方案是提出SciTBERT系列模型——一种基于科学论文、专利及高质量教育类网络文本构建的、具有严格时间一致性（chronologically consistent）的BERT衍生语言模型，训练数据截止日期覆盖2013至2025年逐年递进的数据集，并通过论文与专利引用关系进行后续时间一致性的后训练，形成SciTBERT-CI模型家族。该方法显著提升了模型在受限早期数据条件下的表现，证明了时间一致性对科学-技术交叉领域表征学习的重要性。为系统评估此类模型在科学与技术接口处的跨域表示能力，研究进一步引入PatRepEval基准测试套件，涵盖多种分类、回归与检索任务，结果表明，经过时间一致性对齐的编码器模型在性能上可匹配甚至超越无时间约束训练的模型，凸显了建模过程中时间与领域分布一致性对提升下游任务泛化能力的关键作用。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12207
作者: Thomas Gebhart,Russell J. Funk
机构: Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota(明尼苏达大学卡尔斯隆管理学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Pre-trained transformer models are increasingly being used to study scientific and technological progress. Encoders tuned to paper or patent text outperform general-purpose models on downstream classification, regression, and proximity tasks within science and technology. However, the applicability of these models for studying time-dependent or archival properties of science, technology, and their interface is limited due to lookahead and domain biases inherent to these pre-trained models. These limitations arise from training on corpora with unconstrained chronological and text source distributions. We introduce SciTBERT: a family of chronologically consistent BERT-derived language models trained on text from scientific papers, patents, and high-quality educational web text with training data cutoff dates spanning each year between 2013 and 2025. We also post-train these models in a chronologically-consistent manner using paper and patent citations, creating SciTBERT-CI model family. We find that these models generally outperform predecessor domain-specific encoder models even when training data is limited by early year restrictions in the corpus. To further investigate the extent to which this class of models can learn representations that bridge science and technology, we introduce the PatRepEval benchmark, a suite of patent-related text embedding tasks at the science-technology interface. Performance in a variety of classification, regression, and retrieval tasks spanning papers and patents highlights the importance of aligning encoder model representations with the domain distributions of their downstream tasks, and chronologically consistent encoders can match or exceed models trained without temporal constraints.
[NLP-22] When KL Regularization Misfires in Group Policy Optimization
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在群体策略优化（group policy optimization）中，移除参考策略的KL正则化（KL regularization）有时反而能提升性能这一反直觉现象背后的机制问题。其核心关切在于：参考策略的信息应如何合理地融入相对更新（group-relative updates）中，以避免因KL与奖励信号之间的不良交互导致优化失效。研究分析了KL与奖励之间存在的七种潜在失效模式，包括奖励裁剪后的残余KL更新、梯度抵消后的KL更新、奖励相同群体中的KL累积、响应长度增长引发的KL膨胀、KL贡献度失衡、KL集中在少数词元上，以及引入k1时采样噪声的影响。针对上述问题，论文提出零和校准策略优化（Zero-Sum Calibrated Policy Optimization, ZCPO），其关键创新在于利用条件KL（conditional KL）度量组内相对漂移（relative drift），并据此校准组内奖励系数，再将其整合至基础代理目标（base surrogate）。数学推导与消融实验验证了该设计在所设场景下的有效性，表明通过精确校准参考策略信息的相对影响，可显著提升群体策略优化的稳定性与性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12161
作者: Fei Ding
机构: Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Why does removing reference-policy KL regularization sometimes improve group policy optimization? This motivates studying how reference-policy information should enter group-relative updates. We analyze seven potential failure modes in the interactions between KL and rewards: residual KL updates after reward clipping, after gradient cancellation, and in groups with identical rewards; KL growth with response length and an imbalance in its relative contribution; KL concentration on a small number of tokens; and sampling noise when k1 is incorporated into rewards. We propose Zero-Sum Calibrated Policy Optimization (ZCPO), which uses relative drift measured by conditional KL to calibrate within-group reward coefficients and integrates them into the base surrogate. Mathematical reasoning experiments and ablations support this design’s effectiveness in our settings.
[NLP-23] Language-Specific Effects of Tokenizer Choice in Multilingual Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多语言语言建模中分词器（Tokenizer）选择对不同语言表现差异的影响问题，特别是当词汇容量有限且资源分配不均时，如何权衡各语言间的表示能力。其核心问题是：分词器的选择是否在所有语言中具有同等重要性？现有文献未对此给出明确回答。研究通过训练123个语言模型，覆盖54种分词器，在保持模型架构、训练语料、训练样本预算和优化策略一致的前提下，仅改变分词器，系统评估其对各语言比特每字节（bits-per-byte, BPB）性能的影响。关键发现表明，分词器选择对低资源语言的影响更为显著——随着语言在语言模型训练数据中的占比下降，其BPB的波动性（标准差）显著上升（斯皮尔曼等级相关系数分别为-0.52和-0.69）。此外，若某语言未参与分词器的训练，则其BPB普遍升高，且惩罚程度随训练数据稀缺性加剧。尽管增加低资源语言在分词器训练中的数据占比看似合理，但等权重分配或反向分配（与语言模型训练数据比例相反）反而可能提升其BPB，尤其在语言模型存在重复数据的情况下。进一步分析显示，影响分词器性能的内在属性因语言而异，说明“优质分词器”的定义具有语言依赖性。研究还证明，可量化这些属性的指标能有效预测下游模型间的BPB排名，为分词器候选者筛选提供了可操作的实践策略。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12144
作者: Clara Meister,Gül Sena Altıntaş,Antoine Bosselut
机构: EPFL(洛桑联邦理工学院); University of Toronto(多伦多大学); Vector Institute(向量研究所)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Tokenizer choice affects multilingual language modeling, but vocabulary capacity is finite and vocabulary size is often constrained: improving representation for some languages often comes at the expense of others. We therefore ask whether tokenizer choice matters equally across languages, a question that the current literature leave unanswered. To this end, we train 123 language models spanning 54 tokenizers. In the main comparison, architecture, training corpus, training-token budget, and optimization are held fixed, so the models differ only in their tokenizer. We find that tokenizer choice matters more for languages with less language-model training data: across the 54 tokenizers, the standard deviation of a language’s bits-per-byte (BPB) increases as its model training-data share decreases (Spearman rho = -0.52 over the 31 trained languages and -0.69 over the 28 written with word boundaries). Leaving a language out of tokenizer training raises its BPB in every language we study, and the penalty tends to be larger for languages with less language-model training data. Giving lower-resource languages a larger share of tokenizer-training data, however, does not unconditionally help those languages: both equal weighting and an allocation inverting the shares with respect to the language model training data increase their BPB, particularly when language-model training repeats data. Finally, which intrinsic tokenizer properties are associated with better BPB differs across languages, providing further evidence that what makes a good tokenizer depends on the language. We find that the metrics quantifying these properties can be successfully used to predict downstream models’ pairwise BPB rankings, suggesting a practical strategy for screening tokenizer candidates before training language models.
[NLP-24] Rehearse Everything Remember Nothing: Attic-KV Rehearses What Will Be Read
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在资源受限条件下，键值（Key-Value, KV）缓存压缩过程中因传统“重述”（rehearsal）策略导致记忆效率下降的问题。现有方法普遍依赖模型对上下文进行完整重读以保留高注意力的缓存条目，但研究表明，在极低保留率（如3%）下，这种策略反而会分散有限的存储预算，使关键信息条目被稀释至接近随机保留水平，从而显著降低检索性能。其核心问题在于：重述行为本身会稀释注意力分布，导致真正相关的信息无法有效保留。解决方案的关键在于提出一种无需训练的自测式重述机制——Attic-KV（简称Attic），其核心思想是“只重述将被读取的内容，并尽可能多地重述”。具体实现为：模型通过从上下文中提取问答对进行自我测试，并结合内容自适应的锚点标记（anchor tokens）来动态分配重述预算。该方法避免了全量重读带来的预算浪费，显著提升关键信息留存率。实验表明，仅使用Attic即可在RULER和LongBench自然文本任务的8个设置中超越所有现有无训练方法，且在极端低预算下（3%保留率）相比全量重读提升达41.9分；当与基于梯度的KVgrad或训练好的RestoreKV+结合时，性能进一步提升17.1和28.1分，同时压缩速度更快。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12133
作者: Zhiyun Shi
机构: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore(南洋理工大学，新加坡)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Many key-value (KV) caches are compressed before anyone knows what will be asked of them: a document cached for retrieval, a prompt prefix shared across requests, the memory of a long conversation. The prevailing approach scores KV entries by rehearsal: the model rereads the context and keeps the entries it attends to, assuming that the more completely a cache rehearses its context, the better it remembers it. We show that under tight budgets this assumption backfires: rehearse everything, remember nothing. At a 3% keep ratio, rereading the whole context keeps 31.5 of 96.5 points on RULER, and on LongBench’s natural-text tasks it falls below methods that rehearse nothing at all. The cause is that a cache keeps what it rehearses: rereading spreads the budget across the whole context, so the answer’s own entries survive at little more than chance. Like a student before an exam, a cache remembers more by testing itself than by rereading. Two principles follow: rehearse what will be read, and rehearse as much as there is. We instantiate them as Attic-KV (Attic for short), a training-free rehearsal in which the model quizzes itself with question-answer pairs that quote the context, alongside anchor tokens in a content-adaptive amount. Changing only the rehearsal lifts three hosts that score it in three different ways: Attic alone is the best training-free method in all eight settings we test on RULER and LongBench’s natural-text tasks, and plugged into the gradient-based KVgrad and the trained RestoreKV+, it raises them by up to 17.1 and 28.1 points. Its advantage grows as the budget shrinks, reaching 41.9 points over full rereading at a 3% keep ratio, and it compresses faster than rereading the whole context.
[NLP-25] A persistent accuracy ceiling in automated verbal deception detection
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式AI在人类言语欺骗检测中应用的局限性问题，即现有自动化方法虽被提出以克服人工判断的不足，但相关研究证据分散且缺乏系统整合。其核心解决方案的关键在于通过系统性文献回顾与元分析，对过去25年间的289项研究报告（涵盖6,136个分类模型）及97个数据集中的3,653个模型进行综合评估。研究发现，尽管嵌入技术（embeddings）和大语言模型（large language models）被广泛应用，但模型复杂度并未带来预测性能的提升；相反，方法学质量（如真实标签验证、数据来源可靠性、类别平衡性及独立数据评估）是影响准确率的关键因素。仅有12.46%的研究使用可验证真实标签的数据，仅23.96%的模型在独立数据上进行了评估，导致整体平均准确率为74.4%（95%置信区间：71.2%-77.4%），且存在显著异质性。该结果与人工判断方法的元分析结果相近，表明当前研究范式下，欺骗检测的准确率存在约70%-75%的天花板，难以通过现有方法改进。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12118
作者: Riccardo Loconte,Jonas Festor,Zane Fatjanova,Mariam Bolkvadze,Bennett Kleinberg
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Automated methods have been proposed to overcome the limitations of human verbal deception detection, but evidence remains fragmented across disciplines. We systematically reviewed 25 years of research (289 reports, 6,136 classification models) and meta-analyzed 3,653 models nested within 97 datasets. Pooled accuracy was 74.4% (95% CI: 71.2%-77.4%) with substantial heterogeneity. Accuracy was driven by methodological quality (ground truth, data source, class balance, evaluation procedure) more than by model complexity: the adoption of embeddings and large language models has not translated into improved predictive performance. Only 12.46% of reports used data with verifiable ground-truth, and only 23.96% of models were evaluated on independent data. The pooled accuracy aligns with meta-analyses of manual approaches, suggesting a ceiling of 70-75%, unlikely to be lifted by current research conventions.
[NLP-26] All Verdicts are Not Equal: Rethinking LLM Judge Reliability AACL
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前自然语言处理（NLP）评估中普遍采用的“大语言模型作为裁判”（LLM-as-a-Judge）范式所面临的系统性可靠性问题。尽管该方法被广泛视为确定性的基准，但其内在稳定性与一致性尚未得到充分理解。研究的关键在于通过系统性压力测试，揭示多方面脆弱性：在零温度条件下，相同输入的重复实验仍导致判断结果不一致；任务难度较高时，呈现顺序的改变会颠覆多数判断结果；而最“确定”的裁判模型仅通过机械重复错误判断实现表面一致性，与真实标签的一致率仅为51%。为量化这些复杂失效模式，研究提出可信判断率（Trustworthy Verdict Rate, T），作为一个统一指标，综合衡量评估结果的可复现性、顺序无关性与准确性。基于T，研究推导出受位置偏差限制的准确率理论上限，并证明可靠性具有项目特异性而非模型层面的属性。最终，研究发现从成对胜率（pairwise win-rate）转向整体评分量表（holistic rubric scoring）的评估方式，在提升可信度方面优于单一提示格式优化，为构建稳健的NLP评估框架提供了可操作的解决方案。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12083
作者: Vineet Kumar,Darshita Rathore,Anindya Moitra
机构: PayPal Artificial Intelligence; PayPal, Bengaluru, India
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:LLM-as-a-Judge is the standard paradigm for NLP evaluation, yet its systemic reliability remains poorly understood despite being widely treated as a deterministic ground truth. We present a comprehensive reliability audit, stresstesting six frontier models across four benchmarks, five prompt formats, two presentation orders, three sampling temperatures, and ten repetitions per condition. Our empirical analysis reveals severe vulnerabilities: verdicts change across identical replications at temperature zero, position-order swaps flip the majority of verdicts on challenging tasks, and the most deterministic judge achieves perfect consistency by trivially repeating incorrect verdicts, agreeing with ground truth only 51% of the time. To formalize these multi-faceted failure modes, we introduce the trustworthy verdict rate (T ), a unified metric capturing the joint probability that an evaluation is reproducible, order-invariant, and accurate. UsingT , we derive a theoretical upper bound on accuracy imposed by position bias and show that reliability is item-specific rather than modellevel. Finally, we demonstrate that shifting from pairwise win-rate to holistic rubric scoring improves trustworthiness more than any single-format prompting intervention, offering an actionable framework for robust NLP evaluation.
[NLP-27] ILM: An AI-Powered Storytelling Educational Tool
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决数字时代下伊斯兰叙事（Islamic narratives）在阿拉伯语及多语言环境中缺乏结构化学习与理解支持的问题。现有平台难以有效促进用户对先知故事的深度理解与互动学习，尤其在语言障碍和知识组织碎片化的背景下。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个名为ILM的交互式教育平台，融合阿拉伯语自然语言处理、知识图谱（Knowledge Graph, KG）结构化表示与基于检索的题目生成机制。具体而言，平台通过知识图谱构造引擎对经审核的阿拉伯语叙事进行实体与关系识别，将故事转化为可视觉化探索的结构化知识网络，并基于此生成基于实体与关系的问答；同时，利用多语言检索管道从原始文本中提取相关段落，生成选择题与开放性问题；对于开放题，采用大模型作为裁判（LLM-as-a-Judge）对学习者答案进行自动评估。此外，系统引入《古兰经》内容作为独立增强层，实现叙事与经典原文的权威关联。通过结构化知识与文本检索的协同，ILM实现了跨语言伊斯兰叙事的探索、理解与测评一体化支持，验证了结合知识图谱与检索生成技术在宗教叙事教育中的可行性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12064
作者: Suhaila Mohammed,Abdelaziz Serour,Allison Lahnala
机构: McMaster University (麦克马斯特大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Digital technologies have made Islamic narratives more accessible, but existing platforms provide limited support for structured learning and comprehension of these stories, particularly in Arabic and multilingual settings. We present ILM, an interactive educational platform for Stories of the Prophets that combines Arabic natural language processing, structured knowledge representation, and retrieval-based question generation. Admin-approved Arabic narratives are processed by a Knowledge Graph (KG) Constructor Engine that identifies entities and narrative relationships and stores them as structured knowledge, enabling learners to explore stories through a visual story map and answer entity- and relation-based questions generated from the KG. Separately, a multilingual retrieval pipeline retrieves relevant passages from the original narratives to generate multiple-choice and open-ended comprehension questions. For open-ended questions, an LLM-as-a-Judge evaluates learners’ answers against the retrieved passages and reference answers to determine correctness. The platform also incorporates Quranic content as a separate enrichment layer, allowing selected narratives to be supplemented with source-supported information. By combining structured knowledge with passage-based retrieval, ILM supports narrative exploration, comprehension, and assessment across Arabic and multilingual content. The system demonstrates the feasibility of combining structured knowledge representation and retrieval-based generation to support interactive learning of Islamic narratives. A demo is available at this http URL.
[NLP-28] When Should Agents Think? Adaptive Reasoning via Cross-Turn Estimation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）驱动智能体在复杂任务执行过程中因每一步都强制进行推理而导致的计算开销过高的问题。现有方法通常在每个交互步骤中均执行推理，但早期生成的推理内容可能已足够支持后续多个动作，因此并非所有步骤都需要重复推理。其核心挑战在于如何高效判断已有推理是否仍具备足够的跨轮次动作支持能力，而无需依赖昂贵的生成式验证机制。本文的关键解决方案是提出一种基于似然引导的渐进式推理覆盖检测（Likelihood-Guided Progressive Reasoning Cover Detection, LoGiC）机制，通过分析移除额外推理后后续参考动作的概率下降情况，构建一个轻量且有效的信号来评估早期推理对后续动作的支持程度。基于此信号，论文进一步设计了跨轮次推理适应性训练框架（Reasoning Adaptation through Cross-Turn Estimation, RACE），将该信号融入监督微调与代理强化学习过程，使智能体能够自主学习何时应进行推理、何时可直接执行动作。实验结果表明，RACE在四个代表性智能体基准测试上显著降低了推理成本，同时保持甚至提升了任务性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12061
作者: Yiruo Cheng,Shen Huang,Xiaoshuai Song,Jiejun Tan,Guanting Dong,Pengjun Xie,Ji-Rong Wen,Zhicheng Dou
机构: Renmin University of China (中国人民大学); Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language model (LLM)-based agents have demonstrated strong capabilities on complex tasks. They typically perform reasoning before each action throughout an interaction trajectory. However, reasoning may not be necessary at every turn, as reasoning produced earlier can continue to support subsequent actions. A key challenge is therefore to determine when existing reasoning remains sufficient and when a new reasoning step is needed, without relying on costly generation-based verification. We find that decreases in the likelihood of subsequent reference actions after removing additional reasoning closely track whether those actions remain recoverable given earlier reasoning, providing an effective and lightweight signal for estimating cross-turn action support. Based on this observation, we propose Reasoning Adaptation through Cross-Turn Estimation (RACE), a training approach for adaptive agent reasoning. RACE introduces a Likelihood-Guided Progressive Reasoning Cover Detection (LoGiC) procedure that progressively identifies reasoning turns whose removal has limited impact on the current and subsequent reference actions. The resulting removal signals are incorporated into both supervised fine-tuning and agentic reinforcement learning, enabling the policy to learn when to reason and when to act directly. Extensive experiments on four representative agent benchmarks show that RACE substantially reduces reasoning cost while maintaining or improving task performance.
[NLP-29] Natural Language to First-Order Logic LLM -based Autoformalization EMNLP-2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决第一性逻辑（First-Order Logic, FOL）自动形式化任务中缺乏统一任务定义与系统性综述的问题。当前研究在将FOL作为目标形式化语言时，存在任务边界模糊、评估标准不一等关键挑战，尤其表现为本体提取（Ontology Extraction）与逻辑翻译（Logical Translation）的混淆，导致跨研究比较困难。为此，论文提出一个原则性的任务定义，明确区分上述两类子任务，并系统梳理了现有数据集、评估指标及基于大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）的方法，包括微调、提示工程（prompting）以及基于验证的精炼策略。其解决方案的关键在于建立清晰的任务划分框架，推动可复现、可比较的基准测试体系，并揭示当前在基准构建、语义评估、本体感知方法以及端到端应用方面的开放性挑战。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12030
作者: Andrea Brunello,Cristian Curaba,Luca Geatti,Michele Mignani,Angelo Montanari,Nicola Saccomanno
机构: University of Udine(乌迪内大学); Italy(意大利)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted to EMNLP-2026
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) have renewed interest in autoformalization. Yet, when First-Order Logic (FOL) is considered as the target formalism, the field still lacks a unified task formulation and a systematic survey. This paper addresses this gap: we first provide a principled definition for the FOL-autoformalization task by distinguishing Ontology Extraction from Logical Translation, showing how their conflation obscures (cross-study) evaluation; we review existing datasets, evaluation metrics, and LLM-based methods, including fine-tuning, prompting, and verification-based refinement; we identify open challenges in benchmarking, semantic evaluation, ontology-aware methods, and end-to-end applications.
[NLP-30] InterviewPlayground: A Simulation Environment for Evaluating AI Interviewers
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在复杂、多轮对话场景中（如市场调研、公众调查、偏好获取及社会科学研究）作为访谈者时，其性能难以有效评估的问题。由于真实人类参与者的互动具有高度动态性和不可控性，传统评估方法在面对此类开放性、交互性强的任务时存在局限。为此，论文提出 InterviewPlayground——一个基于社会理论构建的模拟环境，通过生成行为符合社会心理学规律的虚拟受访者，实现对 AI 访谈者在多轮对话中的适应能力与表现进行系统化评估。其解决方案的关键在于：利用基于社会理论的模拟参与者构建可控且可重复的实验场景，并输出包含多项经验证指标的《访谈表现报告卡》（InterviewReportCard），从而实现对 AI 访谈者在深度互动中表现的量化分析。通过将 15 场真实人类研究的结果与模拟研究进行对比，发现模拟评估结果与真实人类研究之间在 12 项核心指标上平均达到 0.86 的皮尔逊相关系数，且关键行为模式高度一致，充分验证了 InterviewPlayground 的有效性与预测能力。该研究不仅为 AI 访谈系统提供了可验证的仿真评估框架，更为未来发展其他对话式 AI 系统的仿真评估体系提供了可复用的方法论路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12023
作者: Jonathan Ivey,Aimee Liang,Arthur Y.S. Wang,Madeline Mandell,Ziang Xiao,Anjalie Field
机构: Johns Hopkins University (约翰霍普金斯大学); Listen Labs
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Preprint. 23 pages
Abstract:Increasingly, AI interviewers are being developed to elicit open-ended responses in applications like market research, public polling, preference elicitation, and social science research. However, evaluating AI interviewers is challenging because they function in extended, multi-turn interactions where they must adapt to participant behaviors. To address this need, we develop InterviewPlayground, a simulation environment for evaluating AI interviewers using simulated study participants whose behaviors are grounded in social theory. Simulated studies in InterviewPlayground produce an InterviewReportCard, which assesses the performance of AI interviewers using a suite of validated measures. To test whether our simulation-based evaluations predict performance with human participants, we conduct 15 real qualitative studies with five AI interviewers, three interview topics, and 450 human participants and compare them to simulated studies in InterviewPlayground. We find that AI interviewer performance in InterviewPlayground predicts performance in human studies with an average Pearson correlation of 0.86 across 12 measures, and the simulated interactions from InterviewPlayground reproduce key findings from behavioral analysis of AI interviewers in the human studies. Together, these findings support the validity of InterviewPlayground in assessing AI interviewer performance and examining potential failure modes. Our work contributes a simulation environment for AI interviewers supported with empirical validation, and more broadly, a roadmap for future work to develop validated, simulation-based evaluations of conversational AI systems.
[NLP-31] Examining Social Attribution in LLM Reasoning : A Theory-Guided Probing Methodology
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在社会技术系统中进行社会归因（social attribution）推理能力不足的问题，尤其聚焦于责任与责备（responsibility and blame）判断的准确性及其内在机制。当前，尽管归因理论（Attribution Theory）在社会心理学和认知科学中已有深入研究，但其在人工智能领域尤其是LLM的社会推理中的应用仍处于探索阶段。本文首次系统性地探究了LLM在社会归因任务中的表现，构建了一个包含7,639个责任/责备判断问题的社会归因基准测试集，涵盖基于经典归因研究的情景（Vignette）与基于真实社会叙事的现实（Reality）两类数据。通过评估32个代表性LLM及5个基础非LLM基线模型，研究发现现有LLM在责任与责备判断上虽表现出一定但不完整的与人类判断的一致性，且该一致性随模型规模增大而提升。进一步地，研究采用探针方法揭示了5个关键归因维度在LLM隐空间表示中的可解码性，并验证其对最终判断的影响模式与人类归因理论一致。因此，解决方案的关键在于：构建基于归因理论的系统性评估框架，结合真实世界与经典实验情境的数据，揭示LLM在社会归因任务中行为背后的隐式认知机制，并量化其与人类心理过程的相似性与差异性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12022
作者: Zhaoxin Yu,Qingchao Kong,Dajun Zeng,Wenji Mao
机构: State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院自动化研究所多模态人工智能系统重点实验室); School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学人工智能学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sociotechnical systems where social attribution, the reasoning process attributing external events to the causes and reasons of agents’ social behaviors, plays a critical role. These processes involve judgments of social cause, responsibility, and blame/credit to agents. Although attributional models are well-studied in social psychology and cognition through Attribution Theory, social attribution remains underexplored in AI, particularly LLM social reasoning. This paper provides the first systematic exploration of LLM social attribution. Our work focuses on responsibility and blame attributions, examining current LLMs’ judgments and their underlying internal mechanisms. Guided by attribution theory, we construct a social attribution benchmark consisting of a Vignette subset based on classic scenarios from attribution theory research and a Reality subset based on real-world social narratives, yielding 7,639 responsibility/blame judgment questions. On this basis, we evaluate 32 representative LLMs and 5 basic non-LLM baselines. To further explore the internal mechanisms underlying the LLM judgment process, we develop a probing-based methodology to investigate the latent-space representations of 5 key attribution dimensions and the consistency of their influences on LLM judgments compared to those in human social attribution. Our research findings reveal that current LLMs exhibit measurable but incomplete agreement with human responsibility and blame judgments, and meanwhile, this agreement is positively correlated with model size. Some attribution dimensions are systematically decodable from specific positions in LLM hidden states, and their influences on the final judgment are consistent with those indicated by human Attribution Theory. The dataset and associated code are available at this https URL.
[NLP-32] Agent ic-TTT: Training test-time policy for test-time training
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在部署过程中缺乏自主性的问题，即现有测试时训练（Test-time Training, TTT）方法虽能通过测试输入信号优化大语言模型（LLM）参数并提升特定任务表现，但其适用场景受限且易因不恰当使用导致计算资源浪费或性能下降。关键挑战在于：如何让模型具备“代理能力”（agency），自主判断何时启用TTT、选择何种算法以及是否复用已有技能。为此，论文提出Agentic-TTT，其核心解决方案是构建一个可学习的测试时策略（test-time policy），将TTT过程封装为可调用工具，并将累积技能视为动态演化的部署环境，通过观测决策带来的实际效用增益来训练该策略。实验表明，与基础模型相比，Agentic-TTT几乎实现效用翻倍，能够有效权衡效用与计算开销，并在未见领域中实现良好泛化，从而推动模型向自主自适应学习的方向发展。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12002
作者: Jiahao Lu,Mohan Kankanhalli
机构: NUS AI Institute (新加坡国立大学人工智能研究所); National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Test-time training (TTT) adapts an LLM’s parameters using signals derived from test inputs, and can make striking improvements in pre-specified settings such as IMO competitions or designated open problems. By turning deployment experience into parameter updates, TTT provides a direct mechanism for model-level self-improvement. Yet TTT is not universally beneficial: each TTT algorithm works in different settings, and applying an ill-suited method could waste test-time compute or even damage model performance. Therefore, such parameter-level self-improvement requires agency: the model must decide when TTT is warranted, which algorithm to invoke, and whether an existing skill can be reused. To fill this gap, we introduce Agentic-TTT, which learns a test-time policy to govern those decisions. Agentic-TTT turns TTT procedures into callable tools, treats accumulated skills as an evolving deployment environment, and trains its policy using the observed utility gains from its decisions. On our benchmark, Agentic-TTT nearly doubles the utility over the backbone model, learns to trade off utility against compute, and generalizes to domains unseen during training. Together, these results point toward autonomous self-improvement: models that can decide how to learn from their own deployment experience.
[NLP-33] DataVista: Diagnosing Multimodal LLM s on Data Video Understanding
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决数据视频理解（data video understanding）缺乏系统化评估基准的问题。现有基准多聚焦于通用视频或静态图表，无法全面覆盖数据视频中动态图表读取、跨时间与跨图表证据整合以及叙事结构与视觉设计信息传达等关键挑战。为此，研究提出DataVista，首个针对数据视频理解的基准，包含961个真实世界数据视频及6,775个评估问题，采用三级渐进式能力框架（数据感知、时间推理、叙事理解）与五大学科领域中的十类细粒度问题类型。系统评估19个主流多模态大模型（MLLMs）发现，表现最优的Gemini-3.1-Pro模型整体准确率仅为70.0%，显著低于人类专家水平，尤其在因果推理与叙事结构理解任务上表现最差。增加帧数和添加字幕主要提升数据感知与时间推理能力，对叙事理解改善有限。进一步分析揭示模型在图表读取、证据判断与指令理解方面存在典型失败模式。该基准已公开发布，为推动数据视频理解研究提供重要支持。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11993
作者: Yupeng Xie,Zhenyang Wang,Jiayi Zhu,Yinghao Tang,Zhouan Shen,Yiyu Chen,Yuyu Luo
机构: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Zhejiang University
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 46 pages, 22 figures, 14 tables
Abstract:Data video is a media form that integrates data visualization with video narrative, widely adopted in news reporting and business analysis. Compared with general video understanding, data video understanding places greater emphasis on accurately reading data from animated charts, integrating evidence across charts and time, and understanding how narrative organization and visual design communicate information. Yet existing benchmarks target either general videos or static charts, and data video understanding has not been systematically evaluated. We present DataVista, the first benchmark for data video understanding, containing 961 real-world data videos and 6,775 evaluation questions organized under a three-level progressive capability framework (data perception, temporal reasoning, narrative understanding) with 10 fine-grained question types across five topic domains. Systematic evaluation of 19 mainstream MLLMs shows that the best-performing model, Gemini-3.1-Pro, achieves 70.0% overall accuracy, still far below human expert performance, with models performing worst on Causal Reasoning and Narrative Structure. Increasing frame counts and adding subtitles mainly benefit data perception and temporal reasoning, with limited gains in narrative understanding. Further analysis of model responses identifies typical failure modes in chart reading, evidence judgment, and instruction understanding. The benchmark is available at this https URL.
[NLP-34] Specialized Decision Models vs. General-Purpose LLM s: Benchmarking Jev Across Knowledge Reasoning and Multilingual Tasks
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在特定任务中与专用决策模型性能对比的问题，特别是探究专门设计用于从给定选项中做出选择的“System One”模型（即Jev）相较于通用大语言模型（LLM）在多项认知任务上的表现差异。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个专注于快速、精准决策的轻量级模型架构，通过在13个涵盖知识、推理和多语言理解的多项选择基准上进行评估，验证其在非计算型任务中的高效性。结果表明，Jev在知识类和常识推理任务上可与前沿大模型竞争，并在MMLU-Redux和ARC-Challenge上取得最佳成绩；但在需要多步数学计算的任务（如MathQA）中显著落后，其得分低于所有19个被比较的LLM，差距达17.7分。这说明，专用决策模型在依赖事实记忆与直觉判断的任务中具备竞争力，但在复杂逻辑与数学推导任务中仍难以替代通用大模型的能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11978
作者: Xing Li,Qingcheng Chang,Jinzhong Ning,Changfeng Xu,Shenlong Zhang,Yijia Zhang,Ling Luo,Hongfei Lin
机构: Dalian Maritime University (大连海事大学); Dalian University of Technology (大连理工大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 10 pages, 2 figures, 7 tables
Abstract:Jev is a “System One” model that returns a choice among given options instead of generating text. We study how such a specialized decision model compares with general-purpose large language models (LLMs). We evaluate Jev on 13 multiple-choice benchmarks covering knowledge, reasoning, and multilingual understanding, and compare it with 19 LLMs in three tiers: frontier, representative, and small. Jev is competitive with frontier LLMs on knowledge and commonsense benchmarks and obtains the best score on MMLU-Redux and ARC-Challenge. Outside mathematics, it also outperforms most representative LLMs and all small LLMs. However, it falls behind on mathematical word problems: on MathQA, it is 17.7 points below the frontier median and scores lower than all 19 LLMs. These results indicate that a specialized decision model can match general-purpose LLMs on decisions that rely mainly on knowledge, but not on decisions that require multi-step calculation.
[NLP-35] MiMo-V2.6: Scaling Reinforcement Learning Towards Self-Improvement
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大基础模型在自进化过程中因强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）训练规模与复杂性不足而导致的智能提升瓶颈问题。其核心挑战在于如何在大规模、多模态环境下实现稳定、高效的自监督式模型优化，尤其是在长周期任务中获取精准奖励信号并避免奖励黑客（reward hacking）等问题。解决方案的关键在于构建一个可扩展的全模态强化学习框架——MiMo-V2.6系列，通过三方面协同推进：一是纵向扩展计算资源，采用异步训练实现高达1,568样本/步和2.7–3.7B token/步的高吞吐量，支持长达100万上下文长度的训练；二是横向拓展环境多样性，覆盖代码、通用任务、视觉及网络攻防等多领域，基于混合代理（agent harnesses）构建复杂动态环境；三是引入群体化智能评分机制（groupwise agentic grading），显著提升长时序任务中的奖励信号准确性，并引导模型生成更短、更高效的解题路径。同时，通过冻结MoE路由模块并建立多层次防御体系保障训练稳定性，辅以统一轨迹表示、高并发多框架回放、控制与数据平面解耦以及训练-推理一致性架构，构建了面向混合任务的智能强化学习基础设施。研究成果开源了训练动态、环境与框架，为后续大规模强化学习与模型自进化研究提供了坚实基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11959
作者: Xiaomi LLM-Core Team:Zongming Qiao,Ziyue Hua,Zirui Ou,Zihao Yue,Zihan Jiang,Zhuo Huang,Zhiyang Chen,Zhixian Zheng,Zhipeng Xu,Zhengrui Ma,Yuyang Hu,Yuhang Dong,Yuechen Zhang,Yudong Wang,Yuanxin Liu,Yixin Yang,Yishuo Cai,Yikai Zhao,Yihan Yan,Yifan Zhang,Yifan Song,Xiyu Wei,Xing Zhang,Xin Zhang,Xiaoqian Liu,Xiaodong Ji,Xiangwei Deng,Xueyu Guo,Wenhan Ma,Weimin Xiong,Weikun Wang,Weiji Zhuang,Shuo Liu,Shuhuai Ren,Shuhao Gu,Shimao Chen,Shijie Cao,Shihua Yu,Shicheng Li,Shengjie Zhou,Shaolei Zhang,Rang Li,Qiying Wang,Qingkai Fang,Qianli Chen,Minzheng Wang,Liwen Wang,Linli Yao,Linghao Zhang,Liangyu Cheng,Liang Zhao,Lei Li,Jinhao Dong,Jinyu Xiang,Jianyu Wei,Jiangshan Duo,Huaqiu Liu,Huanjie Fan,Hongyi Guan,Hongshen Xu,Hao Tian,Hanyu Li,Hailin Zhang,Gang Wang,Fuli Luo,Feng Wei,Dong Zhang,Dawei Zhu,Chiheng Lou,Chenhong He,Chenhao He,Chenghua Liu,Bowen Ye,Bowen Shen,Boshen Xu,Bo Yang,Bingquan Xia,Bangjun Xiao,Baixuan Xu,Zhouxiang Mao,Zhiyang Zhang,Zhixiang Xu,Zhenru Lin,Zhengju Tang,Zhaojun Huang,Yuzhe Weng,Yuxing Xiang,Yuxiao Li,Yuheng Yang,Yuhang Wang,Yuchen Liu,Yuanyuan Tian,Yuanliang Dong,Yu Cheng,Yongzhe He,Yongshun Liang,Yong Wang,Yiyan Wang,Yitian Gong
机构: LLM-Core Xiaomi(小米)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Reinforcement learning (RL) is the central training paradigm for advancing large foundation models towards self-improvement. This report introduces the MiMo-V2.6 series, an omni-modal family that pushes the frontier of model intelligence by scaling RL compute. Prior to RL, we conduct mid-training on a broad multimodal corpus to provide ample exploration space, and build a solid infrastructure on the pretrained hybrid-SWA architecture to support subsequent scale-up. We scale RL compute along three dimensions: (1) larger batches and higher throughput, with an asynchronous training that consumes 1,568 samples and 2.7-3.7B tokens per step at context lengths of up to 1M; (2) more diverse and complex environments, spanning code, general, visual, and cyber domains under a mixture of agent harnesses; and (3) more grader compute, via groupwise agentic grading that yields more accurate reward signals for long-horizon tasks and steers the model towards shorter, more token-efficient solutions. To keep training stable at scale, we freeze the MoE router and establish a multi-layer defense against reward hacking. We further build infrastructure for mixed-task agentic RL, including a unified trajectory representation, high-concurrency multi-framework rollout, decoupled control and data planes, and training-inference consistency. We open-source the training dynamics, RL environments, and RL framework to facilitate reproduction and further research on scaled RL and model self-improvement.
[NLP-36] When History Helps and Hurts: Selective History Use across Multimodal Turns
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多轮对话中模型对历史信息的选择性使用能力评估不充分的问题，即现有评估方法未能将历史信息的使用需求与问题本身的难度相分离。具体而言，模型可能需要依赖早期问题的历史答案（如上下文一致性），但该答案已过时；或需结合历史证据应对当前矛盾的新观察，而现有基准难以区分此类复杂情境。为此，研究提出ReTurn基准，包含7,000个基础任务，涵盖视觉与音频模态证据，系统性地构建四类任务：用于测试历史问题在当前媒体中的适用性（Reconfirm/Reground）以及历史证据在当前媒体竞争下的可检索性（Retrieve/Rebind）。每组任务保持目标问题、媒体内容和正确答案一致，同时通过控制历史与当前媒体的一致性或竞争关系，实现对历史信息选择性使用的精确测量。该框架支持开放式及多项选择题评估，并配有单轮对照任务作为可回答性参考。实验表明，在13个全模态、视觉-语言及语音-语言模型上，模型在多轮对话中的开放式准确率从直接输入的93.7%下降至72.3%，行为探针揭示高问题回忆率并不等同于有效任务应用，且当前媒体的竞争性会显著干扰历史信息的利用。监督微调仅带来部分性能提升，凸显当前模型在动态情境下精准筛选与使用历史信息方面仍存在根本性挑战。因此，该研究的关键在于建立一个受控、可量化、能分离历史使用需求与任务难度的评估体系，从而推动生成式多模态系统在复杂交互中更智能地利用历史信息。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11948
作者: Shuoyang Sun,Kerui Gu,Hao Fang,Shaoli Huang,Bin Chen
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (哈尔滨工业大学深圳校区); AgiBot; Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University (清华大学深圳国际研究生院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Reliable multimodal interaction depends on selective use of conversational history: an earlier question may remain relevant while its previous answer is outdated, whereas a current request may depend on historical evidence despite conflicting new observations. Existing multi-turn evaluations rarely separate these history-use demands from underlying question difficulty. To address this gap, we introduce ReTurn, a benchmark of 7,000 base tasks spanning visual and audio evidence for evaluating selective history use. For task-carrying history, Reconfirm/Reground require applying a historical question to current media while varying historical agreement; for evidence-carrying history, Retrieve/Rebind require answering a current question using historical media while varying current-media competition. Each pair preserves the target question, media, and answer. Tasks support open-ended and multiple-choice evaluation, with matched single-turn counterparts serving as answerability references. Across 13 omni-modal, vision-language, and audio-language models, median model-level open-ended accuracy falls from 93.7% with direct input to 72.3% in conversation. Behavioral probes show that high question recall can coexist with weaker task application, while competing media can redirect answers away from historical targets. Supervised adaptation yields only partial gains. ReTurn provides a controlled framework for assessing whether multimodal models select and use the historical information required by each request.
[NLP-37] Event-Centric Memory with Query-Aware Graph Augmentation for Long-Term Conversational Agents
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决持久化与个性化对话代理在处理长期对话历史时面临的记忆建模难题：现有记忆系统中的扁平结构记忆（flat-structured memory）虽轻量但隐含事件间关系与状态更新，而基于图的记忆（graph-based memory）虽显式建模结构却面临构建开销大及长历史中引入无关关系的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出QGMem框架，受人类记忆机制启发，将对话历史转化为以事件为索引的原子记忆单元，并通过动态记忆轨迹整合相关单元以保留状态演化路径与当前状态；当查询到来时，采用混合检索与查询感知重排序机制激活最相关的记忆单元构成紧凑的工作记忆（working memory），并进一步将工作记忆组织为局部图结构，以显式暴露关系依赖并支持冲突感知推理，最终将图令牌与文本工作记忆联合输入大语言模型（LLM），提升证据利用效率。实验在六个基准上验证了该框架的有效性，在保持紧凑上下文与适度推理成本的前提下，显著提升了检索精度、多跳证据组合、冲突消解及超长对话推理能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11920
作者: Yichen Liu,Chunfeng Yuan,Haowei Liu,Wenjuan Li,Zefeng Lin,Bing Li,Xu Chen,Weiming Hu
机构: Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学); Renmin University of China (中国人民大学); ShanghaiTech University (上海科技大学); Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团); PeopleAI Inc. (人智科技公司)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:For persistent and personalized conversational agents, memory systems can enable them to remember, update, and reason over long histories by storing past interactions and retrieving relevant information. Existing memory systems typically follow two paradigms: flat-structured memory and graph-based memory. The former is lightweight but leaves event relations and state updates implicit, while the latter explicitly models memory structure but incurs additional construction cost and introduces irrelevant relations over long histories. To address these limitations, we propose QGMem, a novel memory construction and activation framework motivated by human memory, in which experience is organized into events and query-relevant events are modeled by graph as working memory. QGMem converts long dialogue histories into event-indexed atomic memory units that preserve individual experiences and consolidates related units into dynamic memory traces that retain state trajectories and current states. When a query arrives, hybrid memory retrieval gathers complementary candidate memories, and query-aware reranking activates the most relevant units as a compact working memory. To expose relational dependencies in the working memory and support conflict-aware reasoning, QGMem organizes the working memory as a local graph, which is then encoded as a graph token and provided to the LLM together with the textual working memory to improve evidence utilization during answer generation. Experiments across six benchmarks validate the framework and show consistent gains in retrieval, multi-hop evidence composition, conflict resolution, and ultra-long dialogue reasoning with compact contexts and moderate inference cost.
[NLP-38] Not Every Change Is Necessary: Recoverable Drift in Large Language Model Unlearning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型中机器遗忘（machine unlearning）过程中存在的“非目标能力退化”问题，即在实现特定知识删除的同时，不可避免地引发对非目标任务性能的负面影响。现有方法虽通过保留目标或限制修改位置来缓解此问题，但仍难以避免对模型整体能力的副作用。本文提出了一种名为“先提议再投影遗忘”（Propose-Then-Project Unlearning, PTP-U）的框架，其核心创新在于将目标遗忘与非目标能力恢复协同优化：首先通过局部解析性编辑（local analytic edits）削弱目标知识关联，随后利用分布对齐机制将非目标输出分布恢复至原始模型水平，从而在固定遗忘约束下实现非目标功能的重建。该方法的关键在于双阶段设计——既满足遗忘要求，又保障生成流畅性与非目标任务性能。在三个基准测试中，PTP-U实现了最优的遗忘-保留权衡，在平均遗忘率81.22%–91.03%的前提下，保持了94.20%的非目标效用；在相同遗忘水平下，始终展现出更高的非目标能力保留。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11915
作者: Xunlei Chen,Qinghui Gong,Jingkun Xue,Qihe Liu,Shijie Zhou,Fei Ye
机构: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学); Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Machine unlearning in large language models aims to remove unwanted knowledge while preserving the model’s remaining capabilities. Although existing methods use retention objectives or restrict where edits occur, achieving the desired forgetting level can still leave collateral changes that impair non-target behavior. Our recovery comparisons suggest that some of these changes can be reversed while preserving observed forgetting performance. In this work, we present Propose-Then-Project Unlearning (PTP-U), a framework that combines targeted forgetting with the recovery of non-target capabilities. PTP-U first applies local analytic edits to weaken target knowledge associations, then aligns non-target output distributions with those of the original model to recover capabilities while maintaining fixed forgetting constraints. Both stages serve a common goal: satisfying the forgetting requirements while preserving fluent generation and performance on non-target tasks. Across three benchmarks, PTP-U achieves the strongest forgetting-retention trade-off among evaluated methods, reaching 81.22%-91.03% forgetting while preserving 94.20% non-target utility on average. At matched forgetting, PTP-U consistently retains higher non-target utility.
[NLP-39] Can Decision Models Understand Stance? Evaluating Jev Against General-Purpose LLM s
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决立场检测（stance detection）任务中如何有效识别作者对特定目标的态度，尤其是在对话语境下区分支持、反对或中立等立场的问题。现有方法多依赖通用大语言模型（LLMs），但其在复杂语境理解与立场方向判别上存在局限。本文提出的Jev是一种专为结构化决策设计的决策模型，作为通用大模型的替代方案，其核心创新在于通过可解释的结构化推理机制提升立场判断的准确性与透明度。实验结果表明，Jev在英文数据集VAST上表现优异，达到与GPT-5.6相当的水平，并优于其他通用大模型；但在中文对话数据集ZS-CSD上表现较弱，尤其在区分“支持”与“反对”立场时存在明显不足。进一步分析揭示，该性能瓶颈主要源于对回复关系（reply relationship）和立场方向（stance direction）的理解能力不足，而非对话长度本身。因此，解决方案的关键在于增强模型对对话上下文中的语义连贯性与立场指向性的建模能力，凸显了结构化决策模型在特定任务中的潜力与改进空间。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11901
作者: Xing Li,Jinzhong Ning,Yijia Zhang,Liang Yang,Hongfei Lin
机构: Dalian Maritime University (大连海事大学); Dalian University of Technology (大连理工大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Stance detection requires identifying an author’s attitude toward a given target, sometimes based on conversational context. Jev, a specialized decision model designed for structured decision-making, offers an alternative to general-purpose large language models (LLMs). In this work, we evaluate Jev on two stance detection datasets, VAST (English texts) and ZS-CSD (Chinese conversations), comparing it with four general-purpose LLMs and two fine-tuned models. Results show that Jev achieves competitive performance on VAST, matching GPT-5.6 and outperforming the other general-purpose LLMs. However, it falls behind stronger LLMs on ZS-CSD, particularly in distinguishing favor from against. Further analysis suggests that this limitation may be related to understanding reply relationships and stance direction rather than conversation length alone. These findings highlight both the potential and limitations of Jev for stance detection.
[NLP-40] Forms of LLM -Integrated Applications from LLM -Chats to Autonomous AI Agent System
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在软件系统中被广泛应用时，其各类命名标签（如“聊天机器人”“协作者”“代理”等）所隐含的架构含义模糊不清的问题。尽管这些标签常被用作市场宣传，但其是否真实反映系统的内在架构仍缺乏系统性评估。研究发现，这些标签确实承载了具体的架构特征，例如“协作者”（copilot）对应一种路由器-工作者（router-worker）架构，需用户逐步确认执行；而“代理”（agent）则与多步骤自主规划执行相关，用户仅可见最终结果。四家主要厂商的代码代理共享一种“推理-行动”循环结构，由子代理协同完成任务。论文提出以“代理”与“工具”为共同词汇，系统描述七种典型架构模式：LLM对话、定制代理、检索增强生成（RAG）、AI增强工作流、协作者、代码代理以及部分适用的代理式RAG，每种均从四个结构性维度进行刻画：架构模式、执行控制与用户介入点、单任务调用代理次数、工具使用方式。通过22个来自学术文献与厂商文档的实例进行验证，揭示了该分类框架的有效性及其边界。其解决方案的关键在于建立统一的架构描述框架，将语义化的标签转化为可量化、可比较的系统结构特征，从而实现对不同应用形态的本质区分与系统化理解。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11899
作者: Irene Weber(University of Applied Sciences Kempten, Germany)
机构: University of Applied Sciences Kempten(凯明滕应用技术大学); Germany(德国)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded as components in software systems, marketed under labels such as chatbot, copilot, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow, coding agent and AI agent. Whether these labels denote genuine architectural forms or serve as branding has not been assessed systematically. In the sources surveyed, labels do carry architectural content, most clearly in vendor usage: copilot denotes a router-worker architecture operating a host application under step-by-step user confirmation, while the more recent shift to the label agent coincides with AI-planned multi-step execution of which the user sees only the outcome. The coding agents of four major providers share one architecture, a reason-and-act loop delegating to subagents. This survey describes seven recurring forms—LLM chats, custom agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI-enhanced workflows, copilots, coding agents, and, in part, agentic RAG—in a common vocabulary of agents and tools. Each is characterized along four structural dimensions (agentic RAG only partially): the architectural pattern, the control of execution and the point of user intervention, the number of agent calls per task, and tool use. An illustrative corpus of 22 systems from research publications and vendor documentation grounds the descriptions and shows where they reach their limit. Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE) ACMclasses: I.2.11; D.2.11; I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2610.11899 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2610.11899v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11899 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[NLP-41] GRPODropout: Less is More for Online Reinforcement Learning Rollouts
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式强化学习（Generative Reinforcement Learning, GRL）中普遍存在的策略熵崩溃（policy entropy collapse）问题，即在训练过程中由于采样多样性下降导致探索能力减弱，从而限制模型性能进一步提升。现有方法多从算法层面（如奖励调整、熵/KL正则化）或词元层面重加权来缓解该问题，但效果有限。本文提出一种互补性思路：通过优化哪些生成轨迹（rollout）参与策略更新，而非单纯增加采样数量或修改奖励，即可有效缓解熵崩溃。其核心解决方案为GRPODropout——在标准策略更新前，引入一种轻量级策略，主动剔除少量高概率且具有正优势的轨迹，并对剩余轨迹的优势值进行重新中心化。该设计基于轨迹级别的理论分析，指导了剔除阈值的选择与方法构建。该方法仅改变轨迹使用方式，计算开销可忽略不计。实验表明，相较于原始GRPO，GRPODropout在更少的轨迹样本下实现了更高的准确率和更高的演员熵（actor entropy），验证了“少即是多”的有效性。该工作揭示了强化学习中轨迹利用策略的重要性，为提升生成式模型推理能力提供了新视角。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11854
作者: Hexuan Deng,Zihao Yan,Xuebo Liu,Shuo Nie,Yue Wang,Chen Wang,Zhaohua Zhang,Tianwen Jiang,Qiuyong Xiao,Jihong Zhang,Min Zhang
机构: Institute of Computing and Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen); Beijing Zhongguancun Academy; XinzhuAI
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Reinforcement learning (RL) methods such as GRPO substantially improve large language model reasoning but often suffer from policy entropy collapse: the loss of sampling diversity weakens exploration and limits further improvement. Existing methods address this issue either through algorithm-level interventions, such as reward modification and entropy/KL regularization, or through token-level reweighting. We investigate a complementary perspective: entropy collapse can also be mitigated by changing which generated rollouts contribute to policy updates. Under the same sampling budget, not all rollouts contribute positively to an update, and selectively excluding some can improve learning. To address this, we propose GRPODropout: before the standard update, we use a simple strategy that selectively removes a small number of high-probability positive-advantage rollouts and recenters the retained advantages. To motivate this design, we develop a rollout-level theoretical analysis that guides method design and threshold selection. The method changes only rollout usage, and adds negligible computational overhead. Experiments show higher accuracy than original GRPO and higher actor entropy while using fewer rollout samples for updates, illustrating “less is more.” This work provides insight into RL rollout usage: removing some rollouts can improve performance. Code is available at this https URL.
[NLP-42] Detecting Spin in Clinical Trials with Large Language Models ALT
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决临床试验中“结果扭曲”（spin）问题，尤其关注因主要结局与报告结局不一致导致的“结局切换”（outcome switching）现象。此类行为会误导研究结论的解读，严重影响循证医学的可靠性。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于自然语言处理的自动化检测系统，利用300对经语义相似性标注的结局对训练模型，通过提示工程（prompt engineering）、基于分词概率的分类策略以及多数投票机制实现精准判断。该方法结合生成式人工智能（Generative AI）生成自然语言解释，并通过人工评估验证其可解释性。实验结果显示，在2,496个测试样本上达到F1分数0.78和准确率0.90，优于传统文本相似度模型，但略逊于微调后的BERT模型，表明该方案在保持高可解释性的同时具备良好的检测性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11845
作者: Tjaš Ajdovec,Marko Robnik-Šikonja,Simon Šuster
机构: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science(卢布尔雅那大学计算机与信息科学学院); Independent researcher(独立研究员)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Spin in clinical trials includes reporting practices that distort the presentation of results. This is particularly critical in medicine, where spin is present in more than 50% of randomized controlled trials that fail to reach statistical significance. The comparison of primary and reported outcomes is crucial for detecting several types of spin, including outcome switching. We used 300 pairs of outcomes labeled with semantic similarity to develop a system for automatic detection of outcome switching. We evaluated baseline text similarity models and open-source LLMs using generated similarity scores and the Youden index to determine the classification threshold. The proposed approach involves prompt engineering, classification based on token probabilities, and majority voting for the final decision. The results on the test set of 2,496 examples with an F1 score of 0.78 and an accuracy of 0.90 outperform baseline text similarity models but trail behind fine-tuned versions of BERT. We used LLMs to generate natural language explanations for the classified instances and manually assessed their quality.
[NLP-43] Memento 3: Model-Based Recursive Self-Improvement through Reflective Rulebooks
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决智能体在陌生环境中持续学习与适应的问题，即如何在有限观测条件下构建并动态更新对环境动态的显式世界模型（world model），以支持准确预测与规划。其核心挑战在于：少量观测可能对应多个解释历史行为但预测未来状态不同的世界模型，导致决策不确定性。解决方案的关键在于提出Memento 3框架，通过外部记忆机制使冻结的大型语言模型（LLM）代理能够持续学习并维护一个以自然语言记录的可修订规则手册（rulebook）作为持久语义记忆，该规则手册显式表达对环境动力学的假设，同时保留未知部分的模糊性。该规则手册被编译为可执行代码用于预测与规划，并通过观察、反思、规则修订、代码编译与验证的持续循环，利用预测误差驱动规则手册和代码的迭代优化。仅当LLM认为新代码忠实于规则手册且细胞级精确回放能复现已观测状态转移时，更新才被接受。这一机制构成一种基于模型的递归自改进（Recursive Self-Improvement, RSI）路径，使代理能自主探索、修正世界模型，并用经验证的更新指导后续交互与学习，而底层LLM保持不变。进一步引入种群扩展，允许多个世界模型并行运行，共享交互证据并以预测差异引导探索。在ARC-AGI-3基准上，单模型代理成功通关全部25个公开游戏，平均相对人类动作效率（RHAE）达100.0，仅使用44%的人类动作数；在Atari Pong案例研究中，所学反馈控制器在三种不同开局下均以21:0获胜，且无需额外调用LLM。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11794
作者: Haoyu Zhao,Zhengxu Yu,Zhiyuan He,Meng Fang,Rasul Tutunov,Haitham Bou-Ammar,Weilin Luo,Jun Wang
机构: University College London; Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, UK; University of Liverpool
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Learning to act in unfamiliar environments requires agents to infer how the world works and revise that understanding as new evidence arrives. Yet limited observations can support multiple world models that explain past interactions but predict different outcomes in unseen states. We introduce Memento 3, building on the Memento series to enable frozen LLM agents to continually learn explicit world models through external memory. The agent maintains a natural-language rulebook as persistent semantic memory, recording revisable hypotheses about environment dynamics while leaving unknown aspects underspecified. It compiles this rulebook into executable code for prediction and planning. Through a continual loop of observation, reflection, rule revision, compilation, and verification, the agent uses prediction errors to refine both the rulebook and its code. Updated code is accepted only when the LLM judges it faithful to the rulebook and cell-exact replay reproduces the observed transitions. We investigate this process as a model-based route to recursive self-improvement (RSI): the agent autonomously explores the environment, revises its world model, and uses verified updates to guide subsequent interaction and learning, while the underlying LLM remains fixed. A population extension maintains multiple world models in parallel, sharing interaction evidence and using their predictions to guide exploration. On ARC-AGI-3, the single-model agent clears every level of all 25 public games, achieves a mean Relative Human Action Efficiency (RHAE) of 100.0, and uses 44% of the human action count. In an Atari Pong case study, a learned feedback controller wins 21:0 in each of three evaluated episodes with different openings, without further LLM calls.
[NLP-44] Easy to anticipate hard to compute: boundary dependence finds the computed outputs that entropy patching misses
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决字节级语言模型（如Byte Latent Transformer, BLT）在生成式推理任务中因依赖熵触发机制选择补丁起始位置而导致的系统性盲区问题。具体而言，现有方法基于小模型预测下一个字节的熵值来决定补丁边界，但这一规则在面对“类型可预测但取值需计算”的关键位置（如数学求解中等号后的数值）时表现失效，导致这些关键位置被忽略，进而严重影响模型对最终答案的准确率。其解决方案的关键在于引入无标签的边界依赖信号（boundary dependence）——即通过衡量移除补丁起始点后模型自身损失的变化，识别出对上下文敏感且需要精确处理的关键位置。该信号与熵触发机制结合后，在不同规模模型和紧预算条件下均显著优于传统熵触发策略，尤其在计算型答案上的表现提升明显，且无需人工标注即可有效定位重要位置。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11790
作者: Nicolás Vera Zúñiga
机构: Independent Researcher(独立研究员); Chile(智利)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 13 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables. Code, logs and results: this https URL (archived: doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23238215 )
Abstract:Byte-level language models such as the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) group bytes into patches and run their large global model once per patch. BLT starts a patch where a small model’s next-byte entropy is high, so global compute goes where the next byte is hard to predict. We show that this rule has a systematic blind spot: positions whose type is predictable but whose value must be computed, such as the number after “=” in a worked math solution. Under tight patch budgets, entropy-triggered layouts skip these positions, and accuracy on them collapses. In Meta’s BLT-1B with patch starts on 10% of bytes, the entropy rule puts a patch start at 16% of the computed results in GSM8K solutions and gets 19.0% of them exactly right; a boundary after each “=” at the same patch count gets 51.8%, and entropy combined with a label-free boundary-dependence signal gets 67.1% (default layout at 26% of bytes: 76.8%). The gap survives adapting BLT-1B to the budget with low-rank fine-tuning (32.9% vs 72.7%, three runs per rule, paired p 1e-200) and grows with model size in byte models trained from scratch at a 10% budget: at 1M, 12M and 50M parameters, boundary dependence beats entropy on final answers by -1.6, +10.1 and +19.8 points, and at 50M it gets 35.9% of computed results against 13.9% (3 seeds each). BLT’s entropy-jump rule helps neither target at 50M. The entropy trigger of Scratchpad Patching is likewise indistinguishable from random scratchpads on final answers (5.6% vs 5.9%, 5 seeds), while answer-start scratchpads give 38.1%. The effect is specific to computed values: copies and lookups gain little, and values the model cannot compute gain nothing. Boundary dependence, the rise in the model’s own loss when a patch start is removed, measured per two-byte context, finds these positions without labels: combined with entropy it beats the hand-written rule on computed results.
[NLP-45] From Sparse Representations to Behavioral Insights for Multimodal Depression Assessment
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有多模态抑郁症评估方法中因依赖密集且不透明的多模态表征而导致行为模式难以解释的问题。其核心挑战在于如何在保证评估性能的同时，提升模型预测结果的可解释性，并有效应对用户层面标注与视频层面异质性行为之间的不匹配问题。该研究提出BehavDep框架，其关键创新在于采用基于稀疏因子的分解策略，将多模态行为表征解耦为稀疏的潜在因子，并通过语义桥接机制将其与具有行为意义的概念相联系，从而实现对行为模式的结构化建模。此外，该框架在弱监督条件下学习视频层面的抑郁倾向评分，并聚合多个观察样本的信息以支持用户层面的综合评估，显著提升了模型对不同模态贡献、跨观测行为异质性以及概念级编辑响应的可解释性分析能力。实验表明，BehavDep在保持最优整体评估性能的同时，实现了对抑郁症相关行为特征的透明化解析。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11787
作者: Guimin Hu,Zihao Song,Jiachen Luo,Jiayuan Xie,Ruichu Cai
机构: Guangdong University of Technology(广东工业大学); Queen Mary University of London(伦敦玛丽女王大学); The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Multimodal depression assessment offers a promising approach to analyzing behavioral patterns associated with depression. However, existing methods often rely on dense and opaque multimodal representations, making it difficult to interpret the behavioral patterns underlying their predictions. In this work, we introduce BehavDep, a sparse factor-based framework that decomposes multimodal behavioral representations into sparse latent factors and associates them with behaviorally meaningful concepts through a semantic bridge. To address the mismatch between user-level annotations and heterogeneous video-level behaviors, BehavDep further learns video-level depression tendency scores under weak supervision and aggregates information across multiple observations for user-level assessment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that BehavDep achieves the best overall assessment performance while revealing complementary modality contributions, heterogeneous behavioral patterns across observations, and prediction responses to concept-level editing. These results show that BehavDep provides a structured and interpretable approach to analyzing multimodal behavioral representations for depression assessment.
[NLP-46] DPPM: Dual-Path Parametric Memory for Personalized Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决长期个性化场景下语言模型如何有效利用跨会话交互历史来持续追踪用户偏好这一关键问题。现有参数化记忆（Parametric Memory）方法在处理跨会话信息时面临两大挑战：一是独立上下文编排导致跨会话整合机制不明确，二是递归更新策略易造成早期证据的衰减。为此，论文提出双路径参数化记忆（Dual-Path Parametric Memory, DPPM），其核心创新在于设计了两条并行路径：证据路径（Evidence path）通过直接聚合交互历史表征以保留早期证据，而增量路径（Delta path）则通过顺序更新关联状态来捕捉偏好变化。二者输出融合后生成受历史条件约束的LoRA适配器，实现了证据累积与有序修订的有机结合。实验结果表明，DPPM在多个模型架构上均优于基线方法，在PersonaMem-v2和PrefEval数据集上的得分分别达到54.22%和86.79%，验证了其在跨会话个性化参数化记忆中的有效性与普适性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11776
作者: Yuhao Chen,Shuochen Liu,Jiayao Shi,Jian Hong,Chen Cheng,Xinyun Ding,Tao Wang,Ya Li,Quan Liu,Tong Xu
机构: University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学); iFLYTEK Research Group(科大讯飞研究院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 12 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Long-term personalization requires language models to use interaction history to track users’ preferences across sessions. Parametric memory encodes this interaction history into model parameters or adapters, reducing the need to include it in the inference context. However, independent context compilation leaves cross-session integration unspecified, while recurrent updates can attenuate earlier evidence. To address these challenges, we propose Dual-Path Parametric Memory (DPPM). Its Evidence path directly pools representations of the interaction history to preserve earlier evidence, while its Delta path sequentially updates an associative state to capture changes. Fusing both outputs produces history-conditioned LoRA adapters that combine evidence accumulation with ordered revision. Across multiple backbones, DPPM outperforms the evaluated baselines, achieving 54.22% on PersonaMem-v2 and 86.79% on PrefEval. These results suggest that DPPM provides a simple and effective design choice for cross-session personalized parametric memory.
[NLP-47] RouterInterp: Understanding Superposed Specialisation in Mixture of Experts Routing ICML2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决稀疏专家混合模型（Sparse Mixture of Experts, MoE）中专家路由机制的可解释性问题。传统观点认为每个专家专注于单一、连贯的语义领域，但这一假设在实际可解释性研究中未能取得成功。为此，论文提出“叠加专业化假说”（Superposed Specialisation Hypothesis, SSH），即专家实际上对多个细粒度特征的不相交并集进行专业化处理，而非单一宽泛领域。基于SSH，作者提出了RouterInterp方法，通过识别对路由决策最具预测性的稀疏自编码器（Sparse Autoencoder）特征，生成统一的自然语言解释。在gpt-oss-20b模型上的实验表明，RouterInterp相较于基于词元统计的传统方法，路由解释的检测准确率提升了约65%。该工作不仅提供了一种可扩展的、更精确的专家路由解释方法，还深化了对基础模型中此前不可解释组件的理解。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11775
作者: Ilya Lasy,Nora Yinuo Cai,Kola Ayonrinde
机构: TU Wien(维也纳工业大学); UK AI Security Institute(英国人工智能安全研究所)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 33 pages (12 non-appendix pages), 7 figures, published as a conference paper at ICML 2026
Abstract:Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) models scale more efficiently than dense models by routing tokens to modular expert networks that are only active for processing a fraction of tokens. A leading hypothesis for the performance of MoE models is that each expert specialises in a single, coherent domain. However, interpretability efforts that assume this hypothesis have generally been unsuccessful. We propose and present evidence for an alternative account that we call the Superposed Specialisation Hypothesis (SSH): experts specialise in a disjoint union of fine-grained features rather than one broad domain. Leveraging the SSH, we introduce RouterInterp, a method for interpreting expert routing that identifies Sparse Autoencoder features most predictive of routing decisions and produces unified natural language explanations. On gpt-oss-20b, RouterInterp explains expert routing with \sim65% higher detection accuracy than prior token statistics based methods. This work provides a scalable method for generating more accurate explanations of expert routing and increases our understanding of a previously uninterpretable component of foundation models.
[NLP-48] Same Outcome Different Evidence: Intent Recovery in LLM Safety Evaluation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）安全评估中仅依赖攻击成功率为指标所导致的局限性问题。现有评估方法通常以攻击成功率（Attack Success Rate, ASR）作为衡量模型产生有害输出的核心指标，但该指标无法区分非有害输出背后的不同内在机制：模型可能主动拒绝有害任务、未能识别任务，或完全偏离原任务进行回应。尤其在意图模糊提示（intent-obscuring prompts）场景下，低ASR并不能反映模型是否真正理解并响应了目标任务，从而掩盖了真实的安全风险。为此，本文提出将攻击成功率（ASR）与操作性理解率（Operative Understanding Rate, UR）联合使用，其中UR衡量模型是否准确识别出被评估的任务，并将其作为回答的基准任务。实验结果表明，相同ASR值可对应显著不同的任务恢复率，揭示了仅用ASR评估安全性的片面性。通过控制性英语重构和FormalLogic任务对比发现，任务显式程度提升可显著改善理解率，而ASR则无一致变化趋势；同时，在高理解率条件下仍可能出现频繁有害响应，说明非有害输出并非等效于安全表现。因此，论文强调在大语言模型安全评估中应联合报告意图恢复情况与攻击成功率，以实现更全面、精准的风险识别。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11766
作者: Haitong Jiang,Chunlin Liu,Sihan Tang,Chan Wu,Xiaoqing Su,Yuhong Feng
机构: Shenzhen University (深圳大学); Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) (哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 12 pages, 2 figures. Code and experiment inputs: this https URL
Abstract:Safety evaluations of large language models commonly summarize harmful-output behavior with attack success rate (ASR). Yet the same non-harmful outcome can arise for very different reasons. A model may recover a harmful task and refuse it, fail to recover the task, or respond to something else entirely. Distinguishing these cases becomes especially important under intent-obscuring prompts, where a low ASR does not reveal whether the evaluated task was actually engaged. To make this distinction explicit, we pair ASR with operative understanding rate (UR), which measures whether a response both identifies the evaluated task and treats it as the task to be answered. Across interfaces, this paired view reveals substantial variation hidden by ASR: similar ASR values can correspond to sharply different recovery rates. Controlled English reconstructions show that recovery consistently improves as compressed prompts become more explicit, whereas ASR does not follow the same pattern. A complementary contrast comes from FormalLogic, where high recovery can still coincide with frequent harmful assistance. Together, these results show that non-harmful outcomes are not equally informative about model safety, motivating the joint reporting of intent recovery and ASR in LLM safety evaluation. Code and experiment inputs are available at this https URL.
[NLP-49] hinking Inertia: LLM s Keep Thinking When Told Not To NEURIPS2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在“无思考”（no-thinking）行为上的评估与理解不足的问题。当前研究多聚焦于模型的“思考模式”（thinking mode），而对“无思考”状态缺乏系统性分析，且现有评估方法依赖于诸如禁用思考模式或缺失长推理轨迹等不可靠的代理指标。为此，论文提出一种基于三层次评估框架的新方法：首先将每个响应标准化为预答案轨迹（pre-answer trace）与最终答案；随后从三个维度进行量化：(i) 空思考率（Empty-Thinking Rate），衡量仅输出答案、无推理内容的严格合规性；(ii) 指令感知的问答相关性（instruction-aware Question-Pre-answer Relevance），评估问题与预答案轨迹之间的语义一致性；(iii) LLM作为评判者显式推理率（LLM-as-judge Explicit Inference Rate），识别是否存在可见的显式推理过程。这一框架能够有效区分仅输出答案、相关但非推理性文本以及显式推理三种行为模式。实验结果表明，即使在严格控制下，模型仍表现出“思维惯性”（Thinking Inertia）——显式推理难以被完全消除，并随答案空间扩大而加剧；在布尔型和多项选择题中准确率保持稳定，但在开放性任务中出现“仅答率”与任务准确率之间的权衡。此外，提供候选答案可显著提升生成仅答案响应的可行性。研究揭示，“无思考”并非由模型设置或指令自动决定的简单状态，而是一个具有复杂行为特征的非平凡能力，需与推理能力并列进行系统性评估。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11765
作者: Dianqiao Lei,Kevin Qinghong Lin,Pan Lu,Philip Torr,James Zou
机构: Stanford University (斯坦福大学); Google(谷歌)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted by NeurIPS 2026. Website: this https URL GitHub: this https URL
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly ship with explicit “thinking modes”, yet their counterpart, “no-thinking”, has received far less attention. We study LLMs’ no-thinking behavior along two axes. a. How to measure no-thinking? Prior work typically defines no-thinking through proxies such as a disabled thinking mode or the absence of long traces. These proxies are unreliable: disabled thinking modes may still emit reasoning, while long traces may contain filler rather than genuine inference. We instead normalize each response into a pre-answer trace and final answer, and evaluate it at three levels: (i) Empty-Thinking Rate for strict answer-only compliance; (ii) instruction-aware Question-Pre-answer Relevance for similarity between the question and pre-answer trace; and (iii) LLM-as-judge Explicit Inference Rate for visible explicit inference. Together, these metrics distinguish answer-only output, relevant but non-inferential text, and explicit inference. b. How does no-thinking vary across tasks and models? We evaluate six prompting interventions on six LLMs across Boolean, multiple-choice, and open-ended questions. We find that explicit no-think controls cannot reliably eliminate visible inference. Models instead exhibit “Thinking Inertia”: explicit inference persists even under strict controls and becomes more prevalent as the answer space opens. Accuracy remains stable on Boolean and multiple-choice tasks, whereas open-ended tasks reveal a trade-off between answer-only compliance and task accuracy. Rewriting the same questions across answer spaces shows that supplying candidate answers makes answer-only responses easier to produce. These findings establish no-thinking as a non-trivial capability: stopping explicit reasoning cannot be assumed from model settings or instructions alone and deserves systematic evaluation alongside reasoning ability.
[NLP-50] 4-Tensor Attention Model for Semantic Physical Reality
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决视频生成与机器人规划中对场景语义状态演变的准确预测问题，核心挑战在于如何有效建模时空上下文中的复杂依赖关系。其解决方案的关键是提出一种四阶张量注意力（4-tensor attention）模型，该模型通过在状态窗口内联合对齐空间位置（x, t）与两个纤维结构——语义纤维（semantic fiber）和时序上下文纤维（temporal-context fiber）——进行统一的softmax归一化注意力计算，从而实现对多维动态信息的协同建模。该设计使模型能够在不依赖编码器、渲染器和规划器更新的前提下，独立完成对下一时刻语义状态的预测。实验在ROCStories数据集上验证了该方法的有效性，结果显示，在相同参数量（约172.5M vs. 175.9M）条件下，四阶张量模型相较于自由运行的一维Transformer在多个设置下均显著降低交叉熵损失（如H=4, L=2时降低2.6%），且训练效率提升显著（2.4小时对比45.2小时），证明了其在建模效率与精度上的优势。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11716
作者: Jongwook Kim,Sangheon Yun
机构: IndigoWave; Center for Quantum Spacetime, Sogang University(首尔大学量子时空中心); 35 Baekbeom-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 36 pages, 4 figures
Abstract:We describe a 4-tensor attention model that predicts the next semantic state of a scene, for video generation and robot planning. A window of states has positions (x, t) and two fibers, a semantic fiber and a temporal-context fiber, and one softmax normalizes attention jointly over the window. Frames and an agent’s situation are written as those states; the encoder, the renderer, and the planner remain outside the update. To test the update on its own, we train on ROCStories, where each window poses the same next-sentence task at the semantic layer. On the validation split, with one seed per setting, the last-sentence cross-entropy on the three matched settings is lower for the 4-tensor model than for a free-running one-dimensional transformer by 5.3% at H=2, L=2, by 2.6% at H=4, L=2, and by 2.4% at H=4, L=3. At H=4, L=2 the parameter counts are nearly the same, 172.5M and 175.9M. On the same two GPUs that 4-tensor run finished in 2.4 hours and the baseline run in 45.2 hours; the baseline is trained by free-running decoding, one sequential forward pass per target token.
[NLP-51] Internalizer: Portable Context-to-Parameter Mapping for Very Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）在处理特定文档上下文时缺乏高效、可迁移的参数适配机制的问题，尤其针对参数规模高达2840亿的超大规模冻结模型（如DeepSeek v4 Flash）如何实现轻量级、高精度的上下文感知参数生成。其核心挑战在于：传统方法难以在如此庞大的模型上实现灵活的上下文到参数映射，且训练成本过高。解决方案的关键是提出一种名为“Internalizer”的先进可移植式上下文-参数映射超网络（Context-to-Parameter Mapping Hypernetwork），该架构通过将大部分参数封装于与基础模型无关的通用主干（trunk）中，仅在每个目标模型上保留极薄的输入/输出适配层，从而实现低成本预训练并快速迁移至大型模型。该超网络仅需一个三词指令作为上下文输入，即可在单次前向传播中生成针对特定文档的LoRA适配器，在未见文档上达到84.9%的top-1和97.8%的top-5教师强制准确率，显著优于基线模型的63.4%和83.5%。该方法兼具高效性与可扩展性，支持独立部署以提升推理速度，或与文档一同置于上下文窗口以进一步增强性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11715
作者: Peter Devine,Nick Ryan,Benjamin Sirb,Alex Chiocchi
机构: Interval(间隔)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 14 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Abstract:Hypernetworks that map a context directly to a LoRA adapter let a large language model carry that context in its weights, but prior work has demonstrated them only on base models of up to 14 billion parameters. We present the Internalizer, a state-of-the-art, portable Context-to-Parameter Mapping hypernetwork that generates document-specific LoRA adapters for the frozen 284B-parameter DeepSeek v4 Flash, a target two orders of magnitude larger than in any previous work. Most of its parameters live in a model-agnostic trunk with only thin entry and exit layers per base model, so it trains cheaply against small models before being ported to the large one. On unseen documents of up to 4096 tokens, the generated adapters reach 84.9% top-1 and 97.8% top-5 teacher-forced accuracy against 63.4% and 83.5% for the base model, with nothing in the context window but a three-word instruction. Once the hypernetwork is trained, a single forward pass turns any document into an adapter for such a model, which could be served alone for speed or alongside the document in the window to raise accuracy further. Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, 1 table Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11715 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2610.11715v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11715 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Peter Devine [view email] [v1] Thu, 8 Oct 2026 11:19:13 UTC (111 KB)
[NLP-52] Structured Sentiment Analysis Using Sequence Labeling as Dependency Graph Parsing
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决结构化情感分析（structured sentiment analysis）问题，即构建一个细粒度的情感图谱，其中节点代表情感持有者、情感目标及情感表达等语义单元，边则表示它们之间的关系。传统方法通常采用依赖句法解析（dependency parsing）框架，但本文提出一种创新性解决方案：将该任务转化为序列标注（sequence labeling）问题，而非依赖复杂的图结构建模。其关键在于利用近期发展的线性化图编码（linearized graph encodings）技术，使输入中的每个词均可被赋予标签，从而有效捕获依赖图的结构信息。该方法在涵盖五种语言（英语、西班牙语、挪威语、巴斯克语和加泰罗尼亚语）的七个数据集上进行了实验，结果表明其性能可与更复杂、单一模型的先进方法相媲美，展现出高效且泛化能力强的优势。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11695
作者: Muhammad Imran,Ana Ezquerro,Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez,Anders Søgaard,David Vilares
机构: Universidade da Coruña, CITIC (拉科鲁尼亚大学, CITIC 计算机科学与信息技术系); Graz University of Technology, Institute in Machine Learning and Neural Computation (格拉茨工业大学, 机器学习与神经计算研究所); University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science (哥本哈根大学, 计算机科学系)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:This study addresses the problem of structured sentiment analysis, whose goal is to obtain a fine-grained sentiment graph where the nodes represent spans of sentiment holders, targets, and expressions, while the arcs define the relationships among them. Our proposed approach casts the task as dependency graph parsing, but departs from traditional parsing methods by solving it through sequence labeling. To do so, we leverage recent advances in linearized graph encodings that allow each word in the input to be assigned a label, effectively capturing the structure of the dependency graph. We conducted experiments on seven datasets spanning five languages (English, Spanish, Norwegian, Basque, and Catalan), showing performance competitive with leading, more complex single-model approaches.
[NLP-53] RACE: Diagnosing Verifier Brittleness in Agent ic Evaluation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大语言模型（LLM）代理评估中一个关键问题：验证器评分（verifier scores）的变动常被直接解读为模型能力的变化，但这种变动可能源于评估过程本身的改变，而非模型行为的真实演进。其核心挑战在于难以区分评分变化是由模型能力提升或退化引起，还是由评估流程中的表面因素（如工具命名、输出格式等）所导致。论文提出的解决方案——TRACE协议，关键在于将评分变化从“定性结论”转化为可验证的诊断过程：通过在评估中施加针对性的微小改动（如重命名工具），对比成对运行结果，检测模型行为是否发生实际改变，并重新评分未变轨迹以验证评分规则本身是否成为影响因素。实验表明，在25个合成任务中，仅更改工具名称即可使脚本代理的得分下降0.250而行为完全不变；恢复原名后得分回升，证明该效应源于评分机制而非能力。在真实基准任务上，多数评分变化不具可重复性，而故意误导性命名则系统性降低所有代理得分0.20–0.44，凸显了该方法识别真实效应的能力。此外，相同运行多次会导致15%–36%的任务结果翻转，说明单次运行不可靠。两位前沿LLM评判者虽对同一轨迹呈现一致判断，但彼此分歧达57%，主因在于一人侧重流程而另一人关注结果。因此，TRACE的核心价值在于将评分变化的解释解耦：既揭示模型行为的真实变化，也暴露评估体系本身的敏感性，从而实现对模型性能与测量偏差的分离诊断。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11678
作者: Radhika Gaonkar
机构: Prime Intellect
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Verifier scores now serve as both benchmark metrics and training rewards for large language model (LLM) agents, and a change in score is routinely read as a change in capability. It may instead reflect a change in the evaluation. We introduce TRACE, a protocol that turns a score change from a verdict into a testable diagnosis: it applies a targeted change to one part of an evaluation, compares paired runs, checks whether the agent’s behavior changed, and rescores unchanged trajectories to test whether the scoring rule is responsible. In a controlled suite of 25 synthetic tasks, renaming tools lowers a scripted agent’s score by 0.250 even though it performs exactly the same operations; restoring the original names at scoring time closes the entire gap, while the same mutation exposes a genuine behavioral failure in a second agent. On public \tau^2 -bench tasks with four LLM agents, an initial 30-task study finds mixed reward changes whose one clear effect does not replicate. In a larger follow-up on 88 new tasks with repeated runs per condition, renaming tools or reformatting tool outputs leaves reward unchanged to within \pm 0.10 for seven of eight agent-change pairs, whereas tool names that deliberately mislead lower every agent’s reward by 0.20-0.44, showing that the setup can detect real effects. Identical reruns flip 15-36% of task outcomes, so single-run comparisons cannot separate presentation effects from run-to-run variation. Two frontier LLM judges give consistent verdicts when a fixed trajectory is presented differently, yet disagree with each other on 57% of the same records, largely because one grades procedure rather than outcome. TRACE thus separates what a score change says about the agent from what it says about the measurement.
[NLP-54] DIAL-OPD: Learning More from Fewer Tokens in On-Policy Distillation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）中基于策略的蒸馏（On-policy Distillation, OPD）方法在监督信号选择上的效率与有效性问题。传统全词表OPD虽提供完整级别的教师信号，但计算成本高；而其采样令牌变体虽降低开销，却违背了“更多监督信号提升学习效果”的直觉——即少量精选令牌反而优于全量令牌监督。为克服这一矛盾，论文提出DIAL-OPD，其核心在于通过引入一种新的令牌选择机制，将教师与学生模型在概率空间与对数概率空间之间的差异进行加权融合：具体而言，利用教师与学生概率的对数均值对奖励幅度进行归一化加权，由参数β控制权重平衡，从而有效抑制低概率-低概率（low-low）令牌带来的噪声干扰，同时保留对推理正确性至关重要的有判别力的分歧信号。实验表明，在仅保留40%令牌的情况下，DIAL-OPD显著超越原始OPD及其全令牌变体，平均准确率提升达5.25个百分点，并使AIME25 Pass@16从13.33%提升至26.67%；在相同保留率下，相较最强基线相对增益高达18%。更关键的是，使用4B教师模型的DIAL-OPD在学生规模上已超越采用8B教师的最优全令牌基线，证明了高效监督分配可部分抵消教师规模扩增的优势。深入分析显示，适中β值能有效平衡对低低令牌的抑制与有用分歧的保留，且令牌级证据表明该方法能过滤高奖励但推理价值有限的冗余信号，聚焦于支撑逻辑正确性的关键监督信息。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11659
作者: Anhao Zhao,Haoran Xin,Junlong Tong,Yingqi Fan,Xuan Lu,Ping Nie,Wenjie Li,Xiaoyu Shen
机构: Eastern Institute of Technology(东华理工学院); The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学); HKUST (GZ)(香港科技大学（广州）); Shanghai Jiaotong University(上海交通大学); University of Hong Kong(香港大学); University of Waterloo(滑铁卢大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:On-policy distillation (OPD) supervises student-generated trajectories with token-level teacher signals. Its sampled-token variant avoids the cost of full-vocabulary probabilities. Yet we find that training on fewer tokens can outperform full-token OPD, challenging the intuition that more supervision improves learning. This motivates selecting tokens by learning value. Existing disagreement-based criteria ignore probability scale: tokens assigned negligible probability by both models, termed low-low tokens, can receive large log-ratio rewards and hinder learning. We propose DIAL-OPD, a token-selection method that bridges log-probability and probability spaces by weighting reward magnitude with the logarithmic mean of teacher and student probabilities. A parameter beta controls this weighting, and the highest-scoring tokens are retained. Across 4 teacher-student pairs and 7 mathematical reasoning benchmarks, we compare DIAL-OPD with 9 baselines. Retaining only 40% of tokens, it outperforms Vanilla OPD and its full-token variants, with mean accuracy gains reaching 5.25 percentage points over Vanilla OPD, and doubles AIME25 Pass@16 from 13.33% to 26.67%. It also achieves up to an 18% relative improvement in mean accuracy over the strongest token-selection baseline at matched retention ratios. With a 4B teacher, DIAL-OPD surpasses the strongest full-token baseline using an 8B teacher at both student scales, showing that effective supervision allocation can outweigh teacher scaling. Further analysis shows that moderate beta balances suppressing low-low tokens against preserving useful disagreements. Token-level evidence reveals that DIAL-OPD filters high-reward tokens with limited reasoning value while preserving supervision critical to reasoning correctness.
[NLP-55] Harness Evolution Hits a Ceiling: When Weight Training Should Begin
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决长时程大语言模型智能体（long-horizon LLM agent）性能提升中的核心矛盾：如何在不重新训练模型权重的前提下，通过可演化框架（self-evolving harness）增强系统能力，并明确区分哪些能力提升应由运行时框架（runtime harness）承担，哪些可通过权重训练（weight training）固化。其关键解决方案在于提出一种“诊断-干预”双重机制：首先通过失败组成分析（failure composition analysis），将失败轨迹按首次触发信号分类为过程失败（如调用阻塞、循环、步数耗尽）与内容失败（如生成计划质量差）；随后利用自演化框架修复过程失败，其引入的行为模式可被训练进模型权重；而内容失败则仍依赖权重训练来优化。实验表明，基于此策略的演化框架在DeepPlanning任务上使Qwen3.5-4B和Qwen3.5-9B的保留测试得分分别从0.16/0.32提升至0.30/0.44，且4B模型交付率由55%升至90%，同时通过LoRA适配器在演化轨迹上训练，成功内化框架增益——在4B上与原框架叠加后得分翻倍，在9B上仅适配器即可达到完整演化效果，将内容失败率从四分之一降至二十分之一。反例验证显示，仅在答案打乱轨迹上训练的安慰剂适配器反而劣于基线模型。该方法在WebArena-Lite上的迁移进一步证实，增益主要源于模型感知输入的变化，而非适配器本身。最终形成一套可复用的“读取失败组成以选择干预方式，再读取有效编辑以决定训练目标”的双层规则体系。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11655
作者: Yuan Tian,Bing Hu,Hao Wang,Binghang Lu,Fang Wu
机构: Independent Researcher(独立研究员); University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校); Purdue University(普渡大学); Stanford University(斯坦福大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Improving a long-horizon LLM agent means evolving the harness around a frozen model or training its weights. We let a self-evolving harness make the system stronger first, then cross seed and evolved harnesses with base and trained weights to learn which gains the trained model keeps and which still need the runtime. We show that the right lever can be read off the agent’s failure composition: labelling failed trajectories by the first signal that fires separates process failures (blocked calls, loops, exhausted step budgets) from content failures (a delivered plan that is poor). Harness evolution repairs the former, the behaviour it instils can be trained into the weights, and content failures are what weight training is for. On DeepPlanning, a self-evolving harness loop lifts the held-out score of Qwen3.5-4B from 0.16 to 0.30 and of Qwen3.5-9B from 0.32 to 0.44; for 4B, held-out delivery rises from 55% to 90% while content failures are left for the weights. LoRA adapters trained on evolved-harness trajectories internalise the gain: under the original harness they add +0.13 on held-out tasks for both sizes; on 4B they stack with the harness to more than double the held-out score, and on 9B the adapter alone matches the full evolution line, cutting content failures from a quarter of trajectories to one in twenty. A placebo adapter trained on answer-shuffled trajectories falls below the base model. The loop transfers to WebArena-Lite (+0.09 on 117 unseen tasks), where the gain lives in what the model sees and adapters do not add to it. The result is a diagnose-then-intervene rule applied twice: read the failure composition to choose between harness and weights, then read what the accepted edits changed to decide which gains to train in. Scores are four-rollout means against fresh anchors, same-night except where marked, across eight models from six families and two benchmarks.
[NLP-56] Phonologically Informed Tokenization for German Speech Recognition: A Cross-Domain Study
【速读】： 该论文旨在探究在端到端语音识别（end-to-end speech recognition）中，是否可以将音位学信息引导的分词（phonologically informed tokenization）作为与现有主流分词方法竞争的有效目标。其核心问题是：在资源受限或分布外场景下，不同分词策略对语音识别性能的影响机制及其适用边界。解决方案的关键在于引入基于音系结构的分词器——利用Pyphen进行音节划分和音素转换（grapheme-to-phoneme conversion），构建具有音节感知能力的分词单元，并将其与基于正字法的字节对编码（BPE）及预训练多语言字符集进行系统对比。实验结果表明，在小词汇量条件下，音节感知分词在方言口语和非封闭词汇的自然口语场景中表现更优，因其能更好地保留音节结构的稳定性；而在域内读语料中，各类分词器性能相当。进一步的音素级混淆分析揭示，错误拓扑主要由声学编码器决定，而非分词器本身。因此，研究结论指出，分词器的选择应同时考虑部署时的词汇预算与分布偏移类型，而非存在单一最优方案。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11646
作者: Christopher Witzl,Tobias Bocklet,Korbinian Riedhammer
机构: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm(纽伦堡应用技术大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:German is a morphologically rich language whose syllable structure is exceptionally well-predicted by the Knuth–Liang hyphenation algorithm. We ask whether phonologically informed tokenization can serve as a competitive target for end-to-end speech recognition. We compare three tokenizer families on the Omnilingual ASR wav2vec 2.0 backbone fine-tuned with CTC: the pretrained multilingual character inventory, a data-driven Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) over orthography, and phonologically informed units from Pyphen syllabification and grapheme-to-phoneme conversion. Across 40 fine-tunes, we evaluate on three German test sets spanning orthogonal shifts: in-domain read speech, dialectal spontaneous speech, and standard-German spontaneous speech. In-domain, all phonologically informed tokenizers match BPE and the multilingual character baseline on both WER and CER. Under domain shift the picture splits along vocabulary size rather than the linguistic axis of variation: at small vocabularies, syllable-aware tokenization improves on dialectal speech, where phonetic surface forms vary but syllable structure is preserved, and stays ahead on spontaneous speech, where new word-forms violate vocabulary closure. A phoneme-level confusion analysis further shows that all tokenizers commit the same canonical function-word errors, indicating that the acoustic encoder, not the tokenizer, dominates the error topology. Our findings suggest that tokenizer choice may depend on the vocabulary budget as much as on the distribution shift expected at deployment rather than reducing to a single universal optimum.
[NLP-57] UXBench Pro: Benchmarking Personalized User Experience in Multi-Turn Dialogue Interactions
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有用户体验（User Experience, UX）评估方法中普遍存在的局限性问题，即传统二元偏好预测信息量有限，且依赖单一、无用户差异的奖励模型忽略了用户间固有的异质性，导致评估结果难以反映真实用户的多样化期望。其核心解决方案在于提出UXBench Pro基准，包含1,000个源自12个任务场景和82个领域的实际用户交互实例，并为每个实例配备一个基于FACTORS框架的用户画像，通过七个可解释的行为维度刻画用户特征，实现用户群体区分。为提供更丰富的评估视角，研究引入双重视角范式：一方面构建个性化用户奖励模型（User Reward Model, URM），用于第三人称评价；另一方面设计Sim4Eval用户模拟器，支持多轮交互并从认知状态的四个维度（如注意力、理解力等）实现第一人称体验评估。为进一步验证评估器的可靠性，研究还构建了两个元基准（meta-benchmark）——URMBench与USimBench，用于衡量其对真实人类偏好与行为的还原度。大量实验揭示了用户建模与多视角评估的重要性，推动了以用户为中心的基准测试范式革新，并为个性化模型优化提供了新方向。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11638
作者: Mengze Hong,Zeyang Lei,Wenbo Shang,Xia Zeng,Xiying Zhao,Qi Zhu,Chen Jason Zhang,Di Jiang,Taiming Fu,Qiongyi Zhou,Qinghe Chang,Fubao Zhang,Chenxuan Ma,Minlong Peng,Jinfeng Huang,Zineng Zhou,Jindou Wu,Muge Qi,Sijun He,Xin Cui,Di Liang,Yuan Hua,Davey Chen
机构: Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学); Yuanbao Team; Tencent(腾讯)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Evaluating user experience (UX) with automated computational methods has gained increasing attention, supported by empirical evidence from UXBench. However, binary preference prediction provides limited insight, while relying on a single user-agnostic reward model overlooks the inherent heterogeneity of users, whose expectations can differ substantially. In this paper, we present UXBench Pro, comprising 1,000 test instances derived from real user interactions across 12 task scenarios and 82 domains. Each instance is paired with a FACTORS user profile that characterizes the user through seven interpretable behavioral facets, differentiating user groups. To provide richer evaluation insights, we introduce a dual-perspective paradigm that combines a personalized User Reward Model (URM) for third-person judgment with Sim4Eval, a user simulator that enables multi-turn interactions and provides first-person evaluation across four cognitive state dimensions. To assess the reliability of these based evaluators, we further introduce two meta-benchmarks, URMBench and USimBench, that evaluate how faithfully they reproduce real human preferences and behaviors. Extensive experiments reveal seven key findings that highlight the importance of user modeling and multi-perspective evaluation, offering a fresh perspective on user-centric benchmarking and motivating personalized model optimization.
[NLP-58] Large Language Model Turnover Undermines Screening for Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Scientific Writing
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决科学论文投稿文本筛查中因大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）持续迭代更新而导致的检测系统失效问题。随着学术期刊和会议开始对使用LLM生成的文本进行筛查，其有效性依赖于基于固定版本集的基准评估，但实际应用中的模型版本不断演进，造成检测器性能不稳定。研究的关键在于揭示模型版本更迭对检测器泛化能力的影响：当检测器仅基于某一供应商历史版本训练时，在不同代际模型的边界处会出现性能骤降——在误报率控制为1%的前提下，其对边界前最新版本重写文本的检出率超过99%，而边界后仅3.8%；同时，基于后期版本训练的检测器也会漏检早期版本的生成内容。研究进一步发现，版本间词汇差异是决定检测迁移成败的核心因素。在模拟的两种筛查场景中，覆盖全部23个版本的检测系统要么误伤1/8的人类撰写摘要，要么漏检1/3的新版模型生成内容。实验还验证了一个商用检测器在面对最新一代模型发布后首个版本时，几乎无法识别其生成文本，却几乎不误标人类写作。因此，论文提出科研诚信政策应将检测器的基准准确率视为临时性指标，需在每次新版本发布（包括旧版本更新）后重新验证，以确保筛查系统的可靠性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11599
作者: Kazuki Nakajima,Takayuki Mizuno
机构: Tokyo Metropolitan University(东京都立大学); National Institute of Informatics(情报学综合研究所)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
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Abstract:Journals and conferences have begun to screen submitted manuscripts for text written using large language models (LLMs). The reliability of this screening rests on benchmark evaluations against a fixed set of LLM versions, while the versions in actual use keep changing. Here we quantify how this LLM turnover affects the screening of scientific manuscripts. We paired 4,000 pre-ChatGPT abstracts from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with their rewrites by 23 LLM versions from three vendors, released between June 2023 and August 2026. We then trained detectors under maintenance scenarios ranging from a detector retrained on every new version to one trained once and never updated. Detectors trained only on a vendor’s past versions can collapse at the boundaries between model generations: calibrated to falsely flag 1% of human-written abstracts, they catch above 99% of rewrites just before the sharpest boundary and 3.8% just after it. Detectors trained on later versions can also miss rewrites of earlier ones. Vocabulary differences between versions largely track where detection transfers and where it fails. In the two screening scenarios we simulated, screens covering all 23 versions either flagged one in eight human-written abstracts or missed one in three rewrites of the newest version. Indeed, a commercial detector missed most rewrites of the version just after the sharpest boundary while flagging almost no human-written abstracts. Research-integrity policy should therefore treat the benchmark accuracy of a detector as provisional, to be re-verified with every LLM release, including earlier versions.
[NLP-59] Probing for Long-Horizon Deductive Reasoning Capabilities in Language Models with Prolog EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前前沿大语言模型（LLM）在处理超长上下文时，能否超越简单信息检索并实现深层次推理的问题。尽管理论上这些模型可支持百万级标记（token）的上下文长度，但其在复杂逻辑推理任务中的实际表现仍不明确。为此，研究提出一种名为ProloNg的合成测试平台，用于系统评估基于Prolog形式化逻辑的长程推理能力，通过控制推理深度（从1到22）和上下文长度（最高达62,000 token）来量化模型性能。研究发现，随着推理深度增加，模型表现显著下降，多数模型在推理深度超过10后已接近随机水平，揭示了现有大模型在长程、多步演绎推理方面的根本性局限。解决方案的关键在于构建一个可控、可扩展的合成基准（ProloNg），以精准衡量和揭示模型在深度逻辑推理任务中的真实能力边界。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11592
作者: Hadeel Al-Negheimish,Jasna Ilieva,Yoon Kim
机构: King Saud University (沙特国王大学); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Current frontier LLMs can theoretically process long contexts with 1M tokens or more. But to what extent can they go beyond simple retrieval and perform deeper reasoning over such long contexts? We empirically investigate long-horizon reasoning capabilities of LLMs, focusing on deductive logic expressed in Prolog. We construct ProloNg, a synthetic testbed to probe Prolog Long Reasoning, which systematically varies the complexity (reasoning depth) of problems, where the hardest case has a reasoning depth of 22 and 62k context length. We study 8 reasoning models across 5 families of frontier LLMs, and find that performance degrades substantially as reasoning depth grows, with the majority of models approaching chance beyond depth 10.
[NLP-60] Measuring Cultural Alignment Beyond the Averag e: A Framework for Evaluating Maternal-Health LLM Interactions in Indian Contexts
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有医疗大模型（Healthcare LLMs）评估方法在衡量生成内容是否体现文化情境化医疗推理方面的不足，尤其关注北印度城市及半城市地区孕产妇健康领域中，照护决策受社会与关系规范深刻影响的现实。现有评估多聚焦于事实正确性、安全性和语言流畅性，却未能有效捕捉生成交互中的文化适切性。为此，论文提出MH-INDIC——一个基于文化的孕产妇健康对话评估框架，通过十个维度的操作化文化行为指标，系统刻画北印度特定语境下的母体健康推理模式。研究采用包含26个题项的问卷对102名孕产期女性进行调研，评估十款主流大模型的表现。关键发现在于：尽管部分模型在群体层面表现出与人类群体分布的较高一致性，但所有模型在不同人口统计学与家庭背景个体间的反应变异度显著低于真实人群，暴露出“总体对齐”与“个体化敏感性”之间的差距。作为下游应用，研究进一步利用表现最优的专有与开源模型，在零样本、自条件和人本引导提示三种条件下生成文化情境化孕产妇对话。结果显示，人本引导（human-grounded）条件下的生成质量与个体文化契合度均显著提升，表明通过量化可测量的文化特征来指导生成过程，是增强生成交互文化根基性的有效路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11586
作者: Umaira Izhar,Gunjan Arora,Pushpendra Singh
机构: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (德里印第普拉斯特拉信息科技学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Existing evaluation methods for healthcare LLMs primarily assess factual correctness,safety, and fluency, while providing limited insight into whether generated interactions reflect culturally situated healthcare reasoning. This limitation is particularly important in maternal health, where care decisions are shaped by social and relational norms. We introduce MH-INDIC, a culturally grounded evaluation framework for maternal-health interactions in urban and semi-urban North Indian contexts that operationalises cultural behaviour through ten dimensions of maternal-health reasoning. Using a 26-item survey administered to 102 pregnant and postpartum women from urban and semi-urban North India, we evaluate ten LLMs. We distinguish population level cultural alignment from profile-level behavioural variation. Although several models approximate the human population-level distribution, all evaluated systems exhibit substantially lower variation across demographic and household profiles than the human cohort, revealing a gap between aggregate alignment and profile-conditioned sensitivity. As a downstream application of MH-INDIC, we use the strongest-aligned proprietary and open-source models to generate culturally conditioned maternal-health dialogues under zero-shot, self-conditioned, and human-grounded prompting. Human-grounded conditioning produces stronger profile alignment and dialogue quality ratings, suggesting that measured cultural profiles can improve the cultural grounding of generated interactions
[NLP-61] Adapting English Quality Classifiers for Multilingual LLM Pretraining Data Selection
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决低资源语言在大规模语言模型（LLM）预训练中因高质量训练数据匮乏而导致的性能瓶颈问题。现有基于模型的过滤方法在高资源语言（如英语）上表现优异，但在低资源语言场景下受限于标注数据稀缺，难以直接应用。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种多语言适配方法，通过将已有的英文质量分类器迁移至超过100种语言，实现跨语言的质量筛选。具体而言，该方法在Transformer编码器输出的嵌入基础上训练一个小型多层感知机（MLP），以多语言文本为输入，并以机器翻译后的英文文本经原英文分类器生成的评分作为监督信号进行训练。实验表明，该方法在1B、3B和8B规模模型上均能保持与现有主流多语言模型基线相当的下游任务性能，且不损害区域与文化知识相关的评估指标。进一步的跨语言泛化分析显示，该分类器能够有效学习原始英文分类器的评分标准，即使对于未参与训练的语言也表现出良好的泛化能力，验证了其在多语言语料质量筛选中的可行性与有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11585
作者: Vinko Sabolčec,Bettina Messmer,Yassine Turki,Martin Jaggi
机构: EPFL(洛桑联邦理工学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Recent advances in large language model (LLM) pretraining highlight the role of high-quality training data in improving performance. While model-based filtering has proven effective in selecting high-quality subsets from web-scale corpora, especially for high-resource languages, low-resource languages face challenges due to limited availability of annotated data. This work explores extending quality filtering to over 100 languages by proposing a multilingual adaptation approach that converts an existing English quality classifier into a multilingual variant. Our approach proposes training a small multi-layer perceptron on top of Transformer encoder-only model embeddings, using multilingual text as input and scores obtained from English classifiers applied to machine-translated text as labels. Our 1B, 3B and 8B scale experiments show that our approach maintains the downstream LLM benchmark performance of existing multilingual model-based filtering baselines, without harming regional and cultural knowledge benchmarks. To further evaluate cross-lingual generalization, we compare classifier scores of high-quality synthetic data and web samples, and the correlation of classifier scores with LLM-based ones, revealing that the classifier can learn the scoring criteria of its original English variant, even for languages not included in its training data.
[NLP-62] Chronos Enables Code Agents to Reason over Software Evolution
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（LLM）驱动的代码智能体在执行代码修复与生成任务时，缺乏对项目历史上下文有效利用的问题。具体而言，现有方法难以充分挖掘合并后的拉取请求（Pull Request, PR）所蕴含的设计决策、兼容性约束及实现模式等历史经验，导致代码生成与修复质量受限。其核心解决方案是提出Chronos——一个测试时框架，通过将已合并的PR提炼为结构化的“经验卡片”（experience cards），并基于代码级、开发者意图及组织关系构建有类型图谱（typed graph），实现对历史变更的语义化建模与关联。该框架采用加权多跳扩展策略，结合语义搜索定位初始卡片，并精准检索相关联的历史变更以支持选择性阅读。在代码生成与补丁选择阶段，统一的记忆机制同时指导补丁生成代理和验证策略代理，并由演化管理代理（evolution steward）依据历史记录进行最优补丁选择。实验表明，该方法显著提升了多个基准测试集上的任务解决率，在SWE-Bench Verified上平均提升至72.9%（最高达79.8%），并在其他基准上也取得明显改进；人机评估进一步验证了图结构引导检索相较于扁平语义检索能显著提高有用经验卡片的召回数量（从1.24增至2.87）。这充分证明了利用PR间关系进行历史经验检索及其在补丁生成与选择中的应用具有重要价值。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11578
作者: Xin Yin,Yiang Zhang,Zhiyuan Peng,Chao Ni,Zhe Cui,Xiaohua Xin
机构: Zhejiang University(浙江大学); Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学); Hithink Research(海天瑞声); National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center(国家工业信息安全发展研究中心)
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Historical pull requests record the design decisions, compatibility constraints, and implementation patterns behind a codebase’s current state. Experience relevant to a new task can span related changes whose descriptions emphasize different concerns. We introduce Chronos, a test-time framework that makes this connected history available to large language model (LLM)-based code agents. Chronos distills merged pull requests into structured experience cards and connects them through a typed graph of code-level, developer-intent, and organizational relations. Semantic search identifies entry cards, and weighted multi-hop expansion retrieves connected changes for selective reading. The same memory guides candidate generation and patch selection: a patch-focused change agent and a validation-strategy agent each develop a patch, and an evolution steward consults history to select between them. On SWE-Bench Verified, the full workflow improves SWE-Agent across all six evaluated LLM backbones, raising the mean resolution rate from 69.2% to 72.9% and reaching 79.8% with MiniMax M2.5. With the same backbone, it raises resolution rates from 48.3% to 51.7% on SWE-Bench Pro and from 41.0% to 43.5% on FEA-Bench Lite. Both experience-guided single-agent variants also outperform the base agent. In a human evaluation on 100 tasks with ten cards retrieved per task, graph-grounded retrieval increases the mean number of useful cards from 1.24 to 2.87 over flat semantic retrieval. These results demonstrate the value of PR relations for retrieving useful repository experience and of the evaluated workflows for applying that experience during patch generation and selection.
[NLP-63] Smoothing the Top-k Exposure Boundary for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决稀疏混合专家模型（Sparse Mixture-of-Experts, MoE）在训练过程中因采用固定顶-k（top-k）专家选择机制所导致的路由分配僵化问题。传统方法将连续的路由分布强制转化为离散的阶跃函数，使得专家间存在脆弱的边界——仅因分数微小波动，专家即被划分为全监督与零反馈区域，严重影响模型学习的稳定性与效率。为此，论文提出弹性专家路由（Elastic Expert Routing），其核心在于从以k为中心的局部离散分布中随机采样活跃专家数量，通过多轮训练迭代将原本尖锐的阈值转换为渐变的概率分布。该机制保持采样邻域对称性，确保期望计算成本与确定性训练一致，同时维持推理阶段的计算预算不变。实验结果表明，该方法在监督微调和从头预训练场景下均显著提升性能：在OLMoE-1B-7B和Qwen3-30B-A3B上分别实现+0.84和+2.02的宏平均指标提升；在从头预训练中，相较静态top-k基线，在下游任务上平均提升1.6点。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11575
作者: Yunkai Chai,Tong Zhu,Xiaoye Qu,Xuyang Hu,Guanjie Chen,Qipeng Guo,Yu Cheng
机构: Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室); Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学); Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Sparse Mixture-of-Experts models scale parameter capacity efficiently while maintaining a fixed compute budget per token. However, traditional training paradigms enforce a static choice of top- k experts, which converts a continuous routing distribution into a rigid step function. This constraint introduces a brittle boundary where highly competitive experts are arbitrarily separated into full-supervision and zero-feedback zones based on minor score fluctuations. To address this issue, we propose Elastic Expert Routing, which stochastically samples the active expert budget from a localized discrete distribution centered at k . Over multiple training iterations, this mechanism softens the sharp threshold into a gradual probability distribution. Because the sampling neighborhood remains symmetric, this approach matches the expected computational cost of deterministic training, while preserving the inference budget. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of our method on both supervised fine-tuning and from-scratch pretraining settings. During supervised fine-tuning, elastic routing improves downstream macro-averages on OLMoE-1B-7B and Qwen3-30B-A3B by +0.84 and +2.02 points, respectively. In addition, in from-scratch pretraining, it outperforms the static top- k baseline by 1.6 points on average across downstream tasks.
[NLP-64] Incremental Open-Ended Deep Research with Structured Harness
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有开放性深度研究（Open-Ended Deep Research, OEDR）系统在持续更新场景下效率低下的问题，即当前系统通常从零开始生成研究报告，难以有效应对新信息持续涌现时的报告维护需求。其核心解决方案是提出一种增量式开放性深度研究（Incremental Open-Ended Deep Research, Incremental-OEDR）框架，关键在于将研究报告视为一个动态演化的研究状态，并通过保留有效知识、修正过时或不完整内容、融合新增信息来实现报告的增量更新。该方案的核心创新在于提出“结构化引导（Structured Harness）”机制，将报告表示为包含大纲、章节和支撑证据的结构化集合，支持结构化检索、持久化结构化证据池以及选择性结构化生成，从而实现高效的知识复用与精准的报告更新。此外，论文构建了覆盖十年时间跨度的时序评估框架，涵盖单步任务（Single-Step Task）与长链任务（Long-Chain Task），以全面评估增量更新能力。实验结果表明，Incremental-OEDR 在保持报告质量竞争力的同时，显著提升了报告连续性并大幅降低研究成本，在DeepResearch Bench上实现最高0.51的文本级ROUGE-L F1提升、0.63的大纲级EM F1提升、33%的令牌消耗减少和61%的搜索调用减少。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11566
作者: Meilin Chen,Hongyuan Bao
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Existing Open-Ended Deep Research (OEDR) systems primarily generate reports from scratch, making them inefficient for scenarios where research reports need to be continuously maintained as new information emerges. We introduce \textbfIncremental Open-Ended Deep Research (Incremental-OEDR), a research setting that treats a report as an evolving research state and incrementally updates it by preserving valid knowledge, revising outdated or incomplete content, and incorporating newly available information. To support this setting, we propose \textbfStructured Harness, which represents reports as structured collections of outlines, sections, and supporting evidence, and provides structured retrieval, a persistent structured evidence pool, and structured generation for selective report updating and evidence reuse. We further establish a temporal evaluation framework spanning ten years, with \emphSingle-Step Task and \emphLong-Chain Task to evaluate incremental updates over both individual transitions and long-term update chains. Extensive Experiments on DeepResearch Bench and DeepConsult under both the Open-source Configuration (OC) and Proprietary Configuration (PC) show that Incremental-OEDR maintains competitive report quality while substantially improving report continuity and reducing research costs. As shown in Figure~\reffig:profile, it achieves up to 0.51 higher content-level ROUGE-L F1, 0.63 higher outline-level EM F1, 33% lower token consumption, and 61% fewer search calls than OEDR on DeepResearch Bench. For more details, please refer to our project page: this https URL.
[NLP-65] Prosody-to-Text: Predicting text from low-pass filtered speech
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决从给定的韵律模式（prosody）逆向生成对应文本这一长期被忽视的问题，即如何基于语音的韵律特征恢复原始语义内容。其核心挑战在于，尽管文本到韵律的预测已较为成熟，但反向过程在理论与应用层面均缺乏系统研究。本文的关键解决方案是通过仅使用低频梅尔频谱特征（12个最低的梅尔频带，相当于约450Hz低通滤波），对Whisper模型进行微调，从而实现对原始句子的高效重建。实验结果表明，该方法在词错误率（WER）上达到36%，其中10%的语音片段可被完全正确恢复，40%的样本错误率低于25%，且在已知前缀的情况下，下一个词的预测准确率达79%。这些发现揭示了低频语音特征与词汇内容之间存在远强于以往认知的关联性，为利用韵律引导现代大语言模型（LLM）的文本生成提供了新的可能性，具有潜在的应用价值。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11544
作者: David Porteš,Aleš Horák
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible
Abstract:While predicting prosody from text is an established task in the field, the opposite direction, predicting text that fits a given prosodic pattern, remains largely overlooked. We find this unfortunate, because this opposite direction could lead to some very interesting use cases. Therefore, in this paper, we make the first steps in the prosody-to-text direction by inves- tigating how much of the original sentence can be recovered from its prosodic pattern. To this end, we fine-tune the Whis- per model using only the 12 lowest Mel bins (low-pass filter with approximately 450Hz cutoff), and obtain surprisingly accurate results (WER 36%), with 10% of utterances be- ing recovered perfectly, and 40% of utterances having Word Error Rate at or below 25%. We also find that, given the correct prefix, the next token was predicted correctly in 79% of cases. Our results suggest that the relationship between low-frequency speech features and lexical content is much stronger than previously thought, and we believe that direct- ing more attention to this topic might open the door to new applications, such as using prosody to guide text generation of modern LLMs
[NLP-66] Learning the Loop Not Just the Page: Execution-Grounded Loop Learning for Web Generation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决功能型网页生成中，现有方法过度关注最终页面质量而忽视对不完善实现过程的诊断与修复问题。其核心挑战在于：生成器（Generator）和修复器（Refiner）均基于可执行环境奖励进行优化，而中间环节的批判者（Critic）虽影响下游行为，却无直接可执行输出，导致其学习信号不足。为此，论文提出WebLoop——一种以执行为基础的联合学习框架，通过共享策略统一建模生成、批判与修复三个角色。关键创新在于训练一个无需执行的批判者（Critic），利用需求级可区分性与下游帮助性双重信号，先建立可靠的诊断能力，再引入后果感知的信用分配机制；同时三者通过群体相对策略学习实现联合优化。实验表明，基于Qwen3.5-9B模型，WebLoop在WebRise上达到41.5的综合得分，在WebGen-Bench上实现38.9%的准确率，分别优于基线模型11.3和15.4个百分点，且性能提升可迁移至首次生成阶段，适用于27B规模模型，并能从纯文本训练泛化至多模态输入。控制分析进一步证明，性能提升并非仅由额外修复轮次造成，凸显了批判者学习与闭环机制本身的重要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11543
作者: Yuxin Meng,Ruixu Zhang,Junjie Wang,Yuhan Suo,Yuhan Sun,Ruining Hu,Yiyao Yu,Yubin Wang,Shouwei Ruan,Bin Wang,Yue Liao,Yuxiang Zhang,Yujiu Yang
机构: Tsinghua University (清华大学); Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab (华为诺亚方舟实验室); East China Normal University (华东师范大学); Tongji University (同济大学); Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University (北京航空航天大学人工智能研究院); National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Functional Web generation is increasingly optimized with executable rewards, yet existing methods largely focus on the quality of the final page and leave the process of diagnosing and repairing imperfect implementations underexplored. We identify a central challenge in this setting: the Generator and Refiner produce executable artifacts with direct environment rewards, whereas the intermediate Critic influences downstream behavior without a directly executable outcome. We introduce WebLoop, an execution-grounded framework that jointly learns generation, critique, and refinement within a shared policy. WebLoop trains an execution-free Critic with complementary signals for requirement-level discriminability and downstream helpfulness, first establishing reliable diagnosis and then introducing consequence-aware credit, while all three roles are jointly optimized with group-relative policy learning. With Qwen3.5-9B, WebLoop reaches 41.5 Overall on WebRise and 38.9% accuracy on WebGen-Bench, improving the base model by 11.3 and 15.4 points, respectively. The gains transfer to first-pass generation, persist at 27B scale, and generalize from text-only training to multimodal inputs. Controlled analyses further show that the improvement cannot be explained by an additional refinement pass alone, highlighting the importance of learning the Critic and the loop itself.
[NLP-67] Constitutional Gating and Deterministic Recovery for Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation: Ablations Against a Stateful Adversarial Gatekeeper
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多智能体大语言模型（Multi-agent LLM）系统在与具有状态记忆的对等方协商时，因存在“礼貌循环”（polite loops）、“格式错误输出”（malformed outputs）以及“合规死锁”（compliance deadlocks）等问题而导致的模型调用浪费问题。其核心解决方案在于构建一个三层次控制栈：一是五支柱运行时宪章（5-Pillar runtime constitution），用于规范智能体行为框架；二是四层群体架构（4-tier swarm），包括指挥者（Director）、三智能体多数表决、监控器（Monitor）及模式硬门控（schema hard gate），实现协同决策与异常检测；三是认知退火（Cognitive Annealing）机制，包含确定性死锁检测、原子化清除代理端上下文、以及标准化恢复消息，以实现高效容错与快速恢复。实验表明，该控制栈能有效减少不必要的调用开销，在不增加额外模型成本的前提下，通过确定性终止规则保障成本上限，并在死锁场景下实现100%恢复成功率（相较仅依赖LLM引导的0/5成功率达显著提升，Fisher检验p = 0.008），验证了其在对抗性门控环境下的鲁棒性与效率优势。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11542
作者: Masaaki Nakatsu(AO, Inc. / OrbLabs AG),Reno Wang(AO, Inc.)
机构: AO, Inc.(AO, 公司); OrbLabs AG(OrbLabs AG)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 29 pages, 3 figures. The Gatekeeper, agents, constitution, lexicon, 30 run logs and analysis scripts are released (see Appendix F). Companion paper: arXiv:2610.09772
Abstract:Multi-agent LLM systems negotiating with a stateful counterpart waste model calls in three ways: polite loops that never meet the counterpart’s hidden acceptance condition, malformed outputs that trigger retries, and compliance deadlocks in which the counterpart demands something the agent must refuse. We study a three-part control stack - a 5-Pillar runtime constitution, a 4-tier swarm (Director, three-agent majority vote, Monitor, schema hard gate) and Cognitive Annealing (deterministic deadlock detection, atomic purge of the agent-side context, a canonical recovery message) - against a released adversarial Gatekeeper whose acceptance rules are fixed regular expressions and whose LLM only renders reply text. The testbed has a known solution: it measures whether the stack executes a constitution-aligned strategy against swarm drift and recovers from deadlock, not whether it discovers anything. In five runs per configuration (30 runs; Gemini 2.5 Pro agents, Claude Haiku 4.5 Gatekeeper) we find: (i) the constitution and Director make an acceptable framing possible but not reliable - 0/5 baseline unlocks versus 1/5 and 2/5 with the constitution; when the swarm unlocks it does so in one turn with 7-8 calls and about 15k tokens (67-73% below baseline); when it does not, it costs 17-38% more; (ii) the Monitor and hard gate do not reduce unlocks and leave an audit trail; (iii) under a honeytrap-to-compliance deadlock, LLM-only steering escapes 0 of 5 times while atomic purge plus a canonical strike escapes 5 of 5 (Fisher p = 0.008 ) at the same call budget, with zero calls for the strike. LLM-written strikes failed the deterministic pre-flight 5 of 5 times although an LLM Monitor had approved four. Pre-registered hypotheses on average call and token reduction were not supported. Cost is bounded in every arm by deterministic stop rules; the stack adds recovery at no extra model cost.
[NLP-68] When Can You Prune Your Network? A Study of Intermediate Neurons in Multilingual Speech Parsing EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决端到端语音解析（end-to-end speech parsing）任务中对中间神经网络（intermediate neural networks, NN）依赖性过强的问题，特别是其在降低模型参数量与提升泛化性能之间的权衡。现有方法通常依赖于多个中间神经网络模块来衔接语音编码器与解析输出，但这些模块增加了模型复杂度且可能引入冗余表征。本文的关键解决方案是提出一种更简洁的端到端架构，通过移除中间神经网络单元，在保持或优于先前方法在自动语音识别（ASR）与句法解析性能的同时，将模型参数量减少12%。研究进一步揭示，中间神经网络的主要作用在于缓解预训练编码器冻结时产生的表征差距（representational gap），从而提升下游任务的适配能力。该工作在法语及中低资源语言斯洛文尼亚语和尼日利亚英语（Naija）上进行了全面评估，并系统分析了训练数据规模与预训练语音编码器中间层深度对语音解析性能的影响，验证了所提方法在多样化语言场景下的有效性与鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11520
作者: Minnie Kabra,Benjamin Lecouteux,Maximin Coavoux
机构: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG (格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学, 法国国家科学研究中心, 格勒诺布尔理工学院, 信息与自动化研究所), 38000 Grenoble, France
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: to appear in Findings of EMNLP 2026
Abstract:End-to-end speech parsing, a task recently proposed, consists in predicting both the transcription and the syntactic tree for a spoken utterance. Existing architectures for speech parsing often utilise intermediate neural networks. In this work, we examine the effectiveness of intermediate neural networks (NN) for parsing, and, specifically, what role do they play. We introduce a simpler end-to-end architecture for speech parsing, where we remove these intermediate NN units, reducing the parameters by 12%, while achieving comparable or better performance than prior method on both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and parsing. We demonstrate that intermediate NN units help reduce the representational gap when the pre-trained encoder is frozen. We do a comprehensive evaluation of speech parsing on French, and medium-low resource languages Slovenian and Naija. We further investigate the impact of the training data size and intermediate layers of the pretrained speech encoder on speech parsing.
[NLP-69] Residual Advantage: Student-Relative Teacher Guidance for RL with Verifiable Rewards
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决后训练推理模型中强化学习与策略蒸馏方法存在的关键问题：传统基于可验证奖励的强化学习（Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards, RLVR）仅对响应结果赋予单一标签，无法对中间推理步骤进行独立信用分配；而基于同策略蒸馏（On-Policy Distillation, OPD）的方法虽提供词元级指导，但其点对点信号未能准确反映教师-学生在词汇空间中的分歧模式，且强求解器未必适合作为引导者。为此，本文提出残差优势（Residual Advantage, \RA），其核心在于将教师-学生概率残差建模为有界单步奖励，通过减去学生策略下的状态价值形成标准优势，并在每条响应内对结果进行中心化处理后再叠加至验证器优势，从而确保指导项在每条响应内均值为零，使验证器优势保持为响应的均值标签，仅实现内部步骤间的信用重分配。进一步地，\CoRA 方法通过在相同评分的学生批次上使用验证器优势更新教师的低秩适配（LoRA）参数，并在下一轮迭代中引入更新后的教师生成残差，实现了指导信号随学生尝试动态适应。实验表明，\RA 结合 GRPO 或 REINFORCE++ 在三个数学基准测试中全部 24 组对比中均优于基线序列优势算法，宏平均指标 Avg@8 提升 1.7–3.6 分，通过率 Pass@8 提升 3.9–6.3 分，且显著超越仅依赖教师的 OPD；\CoRA 进一步带来 1.0–1.5 分的提升，验证了动态自适应指导的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11519
作者: Xiaobing Chen,Zhiqi Pang
机构: Harbin Engineering University (哈尔滨工程大学); Tencent(腾讯); Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and on-policy distillation (OPD) have become two main paradigms for post-training reasoning models. RLVR gives each response a single outcome label, leaving the steps inside it without separate credit. OPD provides token-level guidance at student-visited prefixes, but its pointwise signal does not directly reflect the pattern of teacher–student disagreement across the vocabulary. Dense, unbounded log-ratio supervision can amplify the teacher’s influence, yet a strong solver is not necessarily a suitable guide when the student’s solution paths depart from the teacher’s. We propose Residual Advantage (\RA), which treats the teacher–student probability residual as a bounded one-step reward, subtracts the corresponding state value under the student policy to form a standard advantage, and centers the result within each response before adding it to the verifier advantage. The guidance term has zero mean within each response, so the verifier advantage remains the response’s mean label and the teacher only redistributes credit among the steps within it. \CoRA further updates a teacher LoRA with verifier advantages on the same scored student batch and uses the updated teacher in the next iteration’s residual, adapting guidance to the student’s attempts. With Qwen3-1.7B-Base and Qwen3-4B-Base students and a Qwen3-8B teacher, \RA combined with GRPO or REINFORCE++ improves the underlying sequence-advantage algorithm in all 24 comparisons on three mathematical benchmarks, raising macro Avg@8 by 1.7–3.6 points and Pass@8 by 3.9–6.3 points. Both combinations surpass teacher-only OPD, and \CoRA adds a further 1.0–1.5 Avg@8 points.
[NLP-70] Does Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLM s? A Representation-Level Analysis EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（LLM）在生成阿拉伯语时普遍偏向现代标准阿拉伯语（Modern Standard Arabic, MSA）的现象，尽管输入提示为方言形式。这一现象常被归因于模型内部表征中MSA占据主导地位的假设。论文通过将Shani和Basirat（2025）提出的语言主导性框架拓展至26种阿拉伯语方言，系统检验了该假设。研究发现，在各模型层及不同模型家族中，均未观察到MSA作为内部表征主导者的证据；相反，方言之间的表征空间呈现出高度密集且重叠的特性，其归一化互信息显著下降，远低于语义差异较大的语言间模式。此外，区分度最强的表征特征并非局限于中间层，而是随架构不同可能向深层迁移。这些结果挑战了“输出偏好即反映内部主导”的常见解释，表明生成偏倚并不等同于内部表征的主导性。因此，论文强调，在分析多语言及方言型大语言模型时，必须明确区分生成偏差与内部表征几何结构之间的本质差异。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11510
作者: Abdu Sallouh,Nicholas Popovič,Michael Färber
机构: Technical University of Dresden(德累斯顿工业大学); ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden(德累斯顿工业大学智能数据科学中心); Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: EMNLP 2026
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) often default to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) when generating Arabic, even when prompted with dialectal Arabic. A natural explanation is that their internal representations are dominated by MSA. We test this hypothesis by adapting the language-dominance framework of Shani and Basirat (2025) (this https URL) to 26 Arabic varieties. Across layers and model families, we find no evidence that MSA acts as a dominant internal representation for Arabic dialects. Instead, dialect representations form a dense and highly overlapping space: normalized mutual information drops sharply compared to patterns reported for more distinct languages. Moreover, the strongest separability effects are not confined to intermediate layers, but can shift toward later layers depending on the architecture. These findings challenge a common interpretation of MSA-biased generation: output preference does not necessarily reveal internal representational dominance. Analyses of multilingual and dialectal LLMs should therefore distinguish generation bias from the geometry of internal representations.
[NLP-71] Beyond Sequences: Distilling Structured Decision Memory for LLM Recommendation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前基于大语言模型（LLM）的推荐系统在建模用户行为时存在的核心问题：现有方法通常仅关注单一类型的行为（如浏览或购买），即使引入多类型行为，也常将其扁平化为同质的令牌序列，从而忽略不同行为在决策过程中的异质性与独特作用。这种处理方式无法有效捕捉复杂决策中的语义层次与上下文细节，尤其在价格与质量等关键权衡场景下表现不佳，导致在“困难选择”（difficult-choice）情境中推荐性能显著下降。其解决方案的关键在于提出MARI（带记忆增强的可解释推荐系统），通过构建一个决策记忆库（Decision Memory Bank, DMB），以结构化决策记忆（Structured Decision Memories, SDMs）的形式存储用户过往决策的明确证据，包括目标、约束条件及权衡逻辑。这些SDMs通过离线后处理的决策蒸馏（Post-Hoc Decision Distillation）从异构行为和用户生成内容中提取生成。在在线推理阶段，系统通过检索相关SDMs来增强LLM的推理能力，实现高可解释性与良好可扩展性，同时避免了直接处理长序列带来的高昂计算开销。实验表明，MARI在标准的下一物品预测任务以及新提出的“困难选择预测”任务上均显著优于现有先进基线方法，并具备低延迟特性，且定性分析揭示了可读性强的人类可理解决策洞察，标志着向具备推理能力的推荐系统迈出了实质性一步。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11501
作者: Leikun Liang,Guoshuai Wang,Xingsheng He,Yushan Han,Yunyi Xuan,Xiaoxiao Xu,Lin Qu
机构: Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Despite the adoption of large language models (LLMs) in recommendation systems, prevailing approaches mostly model single-type behaviors (e.g., views or purchases). Even when incorporating multiple behaviors, existing methods flatten heterogeneous actions into homogeneous token sequences, ignoring their distinct decision-making roles. This flattening fails to capture semantic hierarchies and contextual nuances in complex decision-making, such as trade-offs between price and quality. Consequently, performance degrades in critical ``difficult-choice’’ scenarios involving highly similar items. To bridge this gap, we propose MARI (Memory-Augmented Recommendation with Interpretability), which grounds predictions in explicit, structured decision evidence. MARI maintains a Decision Memory Bank (DMB) that archives users’ past rationales as Structured Decision Memories (SDMs): concise records of goals, constraints, and trade-offs. These SDMs are generated offline via Post-Hoc Decision Distillation from heterogeneous behaviors and user-generated content. By retrieving relevant SDMs to augment LLM reasoning, MARI achieves interpretability and scalability without the prohibitive cost of processing long raw sequences. Extensive experiments show MARI significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on standard next-item prediction and a newly introduced Difficult Choice Prediction task, incurring low latency overhead by decoupling memory construction from online inference. Qualitative analyses reveal actionable, human-readable insights into user decision-making, marking a concrete step toward reasoning-aware recommendation systems.
[NLP-72] SAGE: Sink-Aware Guided Emphasis for Visual Grounding in Vision-Language Decoders EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大规模视觉-语言模型（Vision-Language Models, VLMs）在跨模态推理中因解码器注意力病理导致的可靠性问题，特别是由“视觉注意力汇聚点”（Visual Attention Sinks）引发的视觉证据抑制与幻觉加剧现象。其核心发现是：解码器各层的注意力行为具有分层依赖性——早期与晚期层存在对提示无关的注意力坍缩（Prompt-Invariant Sinks, PIS），即持续聚焦于图像中少数固定区域；而中间层则表现出提示依赖性，承担视觉-语言对齐的关键作用。这一结构化差异表明，将注意力汇聚点视为均质效应是不充分的。为此，论文提出轻量级干预方法SAGE（Sink-Aware Guided Emphasis），通过利用标准视觉主干网络（如CLIP、ViT、DINOv3）生成的、与标记对齐的感兴趣区域（Region of Interest, ROI）掩码，引导解码器注意力避开PIS并聚焦于与查询相关的动态区域。实验表明，SAGE在多种基于编码器-解码器架构的VLM家族上显著提升了视觉定位精度，减少了幻觉，并在包括细粒度视觉判别在内的多个公开下游任务中实现了稳定性能增益。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11469
作者: Jeonghyo Song,YoungJoon Yoo
机构: Chung-Ang University (中央大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings
Abstract:Recent large vision-language models (VLMs) pair a visual encoder with a large language model (LLM) and perform well on diverse image-text tasks, yet their reliability is often limited by decoder attention pathologies that suppress visual evidence and exacerbate hallucinations. In this paper, we revisit visual attention sinks and uncover a structured, layer-dependent behavior: across prompts, early and late decoder layers exhibit prompt-invariant attention collapse onto the same few image regions, which we term PIS (Prompt-Invariant Sinks), whereas mid layers become prompt-conditioned and drive vision-language alignment. This split suggests that treating sinks as a uniform effect is incomplete. Building on this insight, we propose SAGE (Sink-Aware Guided Emphasis), a lightweight intervention that steers decoder attention away from PIS and toward query-dependent regions of interest (ROIs) using token-aligned ROI masks derived from standard vision backbones such as CLIP, ViT, and DINOv3. Evaluated on diverse vision-encoder + decoder-only LLM VLM families, SAGE improves visual grounding, reduces hallucinations, and yields consistent gains across public downstream vision-language benchmarks, including fine-grained visual discrimination settings where localized evidence is crucial, when instantiated with backbone-derived ROI masks.
[NLP-73] Who Verifies the Verifier? Co-Evolving Inspectable Graders with Self-Improving Agents NEURIPS2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决自进化智能体（self-improving agent）在开放性任务中缺乏可靠验证机制的问题，尤其针对现有方法依赖人工编写的评分标准（rubric）或仅使用大语言模型（LLM）作为评判器所引发的奖励黑客（reward hacking）与共现盲点（shared blind spots）风险。其核心解决方案在于将验证器（verifier）本身作为可演化的对象：构建一个可解释的表达式，由聚类失败样本生成的小型、大部分确定性的缺陷检测器（drawback detectors）组成，这些检测器在初始阶段受门控机制约束，并通过与十项锚定参考集的一致性以及对未标注输出的共识进行选择，而非依据智能体自身的得分。实验表明，在MBPP+基准上，该演化后的验证器相较原始人工设计的基准实现了0.21的保留一致率提升，且优于其所包含的纯LLM评判器。关键发现指出，移除锚定保护机制会导致验证器退化为始终放行的无效评判器，但即便如此，该退化验证器仍能有效训练技能，说明下游任务得分无法作为自我演化验证器的有效认证指标。相反，演化验证器可替代真实标签或评分标准以实现性能提升——通过“双棘轮”（Double Ratchet）机制，将验证器与生命周期管理的技能循环配对，可在代码生成、企业级文本转SQL及无参考报告生成等任务中保持88%-110%的性能增益。当演化技能试图操纵报告评分标准时，外部评判器及时识别问题，新增检测器完成修复，而评判器自身亦需任务合同（task contract）才能正确判断，凸显了任务定义清晰性对验证有效性的重要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11464
作者: Xing Zhang,Guanghui Wang,Yanwei Cui,Ziyuan Li,Wei Qiu,Bing Zhu,Peiyang He
机构: AWS Forward Deployed Engineering; HSBC Holdings Plc., HSBC Technology Center, China
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop: Who Verifies the Agents? Toward Reliable Agent Development
Abstract:We changed the agent: did it actually get better? Every self-improving agent loop answers this hundreds of times, and every answer comes from a verifier. On open-ended tasks none exists, so the loop is handed a hand-written rubric or a bare LLM judge grading output from a model like itself, inviting reward hacking and shared blind spots. We make the verifier the evolving object: an inspectable expression over small, mostly deterministic drawback detectors, synthesized from clustered failures, gated at birth, and selected for agreement with a ten-item anchored reference set plus consensus over unlabeled outputs, never for the agent’s score. On MBPP+ it gains +0.21 held-out agreement over the hand-authored seed composition, on every seed, and ends ahead of the bare LLM judge it contains. One finding should change how co-evolved verifiers are validated: removing the anchor guards collapses the verifier into a vacuous always-pass grader, yet that collapsed verifier trains skills just as well. Downstream task score cannot certify a self-evolved verifier. Score does answer sufficiency, and there an evolved verifier can substitute: Double Ratchet, pairing the verifier with a lifecycle-managed skill loop, retains 88-110% of the lift that ground truth or a rubric buys the same loop, across code generation, enterprise text-to-SQL, and reference-free report generation. When evolved skills gamed the report rubric, an outer judge caught it and one added detector repaired it; the judge itself was wrong until given the task contract.
[NLP-74] Beyond Speech Captions: Speech-Rewarded Style Planning for Conversational Text-to-Speech
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（LLM）与可控文本到语音（TTS）系统之间通过自然语言风格描述进行交互时，描述作为伪标签导致目标声学特征被压缩至文本表示中，且描述保真度并不等同于对特定合成器的有效控制这一关键问题。其核心挑战在于：现有方法依赖文本描述与目标语音之间的对齐程度来指导风格生成，但实证表明这种对齐仅弱预测下游声学相似性，难以实现精准的语音风格控制。为此，论文提出语音奖励式风格规划（Speech-Rewarded Style Planning, SRSP），其关键在于利用一个冻结的下游TTS模型作为教师，通过组相对策略优化（Group-Relative Policy Optimization, GRPO）训练一个基于文本的风格规划器，以目标语音标记的教师强制似然作为奖励信号，从而引导风格指令生成更贴近目标语音的声学表现。实验结果表明，SRSP在英语子集ISCSLP 2026 CoT-TTS数据集上显著提升了语音风格与情感相似性，降低了梅尔倒谱失真，并在基于LLM的表达性语音评估中展现出更高的上下文恰当性和参考一致性，优于基线方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11461
作者: Shiao Zhu,Lianbo Liu,Sizhen Lyu,Yuzhe Wang,Sheng Li,Takahiro Shinozaki
机构: 未知
类目: ound (cs.SD); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
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Abstract:Natural-language style descriptions provide an interpretable interface between large language models (LLMs) and controllable text-to-speech (TTS). However, using descriptions as pseudo-labels compresses target acoustics into text, and descriptive fidelity need not imply effective control of a particular synthesizer. We empirically show that speech-text alignment only weakly predicts downstream acoustic similarity among candidate instructions for the same utterance. We therefore propose Speech-Rewarded Style Planning (SRSP), which trains a text-based style planner through a frozen downstream TTS model. Given dialogue history and response text, the planner generates candidate instructions and is optimized with group-relative policy optimization (GRPO), using the teacher-forced likelihood of target speech tokens as the reward. On an English subset of the ISCSLP 2026 CoT-TTS corpus, SRSP achieves higher speech-style and emotion similarity to target speech and lower mel-cepstral distortion than the Base LLM and target-audio-informed captioning baselines. LLM-based expressive speech evaluation further shows gains over all baselines in contextual appropriateness and reference consistency.
[NLP-75] Adversarial Cues in Decision Models Used as Judges: The Role of Request Presentation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在答案评分任务中对逻辑等价但呈现形式不同的评判请求存在不一致响应的问题，即当候选答案的最终数值错误时，评分模型仍可能因早期值与参考答案匹配而误判为正确。其解决方案的关键在于揭示：仅通过在候选答案中添加一个冒号（colon），即可在特定结构化评分请求的呈现方式下，导致评分系统违背“拒绝明显错误最终值”的基本原则。研究通过引入数值参考作为错误验证依据，并采用配对干预手段区分候选答案编辑与系统呈现策略之间的差异，发现该微小编辑可使Jev模型在未使用过的DROP和GSM8K数据集上的假接受率从1.0%~3.0%显著上升至26.0%~26.5%，且在插入式呈现下两种变体均被正确拒绝。尽管结果通过了预设的统计校正，但多数超额接受情况集中于数值误差较大的候选答案。值得注意的是，GPT-6 Sol未表现出由提示条件引发的假接受现象，但存在未响应的情况。研究结论表明，基础评分能力可与对同一编辑在不同逻辑等价请求呈现下的高度敏感性并存，而参考感知语法与复合排序变化限制了该发现的应用范围，其内在机制尚待进一步测量。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11436
作者: Hongliang Liu
机构: 独立研究者(Independent Researcher)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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Abstract:An answer judge instructed to grade the final commitment should reject an explicitly wrong final value even when an earlier value matches the reference. We show that adding one colon to a candidate can violate this requirement depending on the presentation of the structured judging request. Numeric references certify the error, and paired interventions distinguish the candidate edit from the integration’s presentation choices. On 200 previously unused DROP and GSM8K source clusters, the edit increased Jev’s false acceptance from 1.0% to 26.0% with three output labels and from 3.0% to 26.5% with the published four-label grading instruction under sorted JSON keys. Both candidate variants were rejected under insertion presentation. These interactions passed the prespecified statistical correction even though Jev met the control thresholds under both grading configurations and presentations. Most excess acceptances occurred among candidates assigned larger numerical errors. GPT-6 Sol produced no observed cue-condition false acceptances, with missing responses unresolved. The result shows that basic judging competence can coexist with sharply different vulnerability to a fixed candidate edit across logically equivalent request presentations. The reference-aware grammar and compound ordering change limit the finding’s operational scope and leave its internal cause unmeasured.
[NLP-76] BioBigBird: A Sparse Attention Model for Long-Range Dependency Processing in Biomedical Text
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决领域专用大语言模型（LLM）在处理生物医学文本时因上下文窗口有限而导致的长程依赖关系理解不足的问题。其核心解决方案是提出一种名为BioBigBird的双向语言模型，该模型基于大规模生物医学文献与临床数据进行预训练，采用稀疏注意力机制（sparse attention mechanism）以支持最长4096个标记（token）的序列输入，从而有效捕捉跨文本及内部复杂的语义关联。此外，通过多阶段训练策略降低大规模预训练语料中的噪声影响，并引入多任务学习（Multi-Task Learning, MTL）框架，联合优化命名实体识别（Named Entity Recognition, NER）与关系抽取（Relation Extraction, RE），显著提升了模型在复杂文本分析任务中的表现。实验结果表明，经过MTL增强的BioBigBird在BLURB基准测试中达到与当前最优模型相当甚至更优的性能，验证了扩展序列处理能力在专业领域自然语言理解中的关键价值。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11430
作者: Roshan Balaji,Pavan Kumar S,Vasudev Gupta,Sreejith N,Keerthana Sridhar,Nirav Bhatt
机构: Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI; Indian Institute of Technology Madras (印度理工学院马德拉斯分校), Chennai, India
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:While domain-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) have encoded vast biomedical knowledge, their limited context windows often hinder a deep understanding of nuanced relationships within and across texts. To address this limitation, we introduce BioBigBird, a bidirectional language model pre-trained on extensive biomedical literature and clinical data, specifically designed to handle long-range dependencies. BioBigBird leverages a sparse attention mechanism to process sequences up to 4096 tokens, and its training incorporates a multi-stage process to mitigate noise from the large-scale pre-training corpus. We further enhance its performance by employing a multi-task learning (MTL) framework that jointly optimizes for Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction. Comprehensive evaluations on the BLURB benchmark reveal that our MTL-enhanced BioBigBird achieves highly competitive results against state-of-the-art models. Our work contributes an effective methodology for developing powerful, long-context language models for specialized domains, demonstrating the value of extended sequence processing for complex text analysis. Our models are publicly available at this https URL.
[NLP-77] Fact over Fiction: Detection of Pathological Hallucinations in Sinhala-to-English Neural Machine Translation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决低资源语言对（如僧伽罗语-英语）中神经机器翻译（Neural Machine Translation, NMT）模型易产生幻觉（hallucination）的问题，即生成语法流畅但语义与源文本无关的翻译结果。其核心挑战在于低资源场景下跨语言对齐能力薄弱，导致模型缺乏足够的语义约束。本文提出一种无参考（reference-free）的幻觉检测框架，关键创新在于构建了一个包含4.5万样本的合成数据集，通过五种语言学动机驱动的扰动策略（linguistically motivated corruption strategies）生成带噪声的翻译，并引入基于字符级相似度的语义恢复机制，以区分幻觉翻译与形态变体。在此基础上，采用mDeBERTa-v3进行细粒度的令牌级序列标注，实现了0.841 ± 0.001的令牌级F1分数。进一步设计了融合神经风险得分、序列对数似然及跨语言语义嵌入（LaBSE）的三信号集成模型，显著提升检测性能。消融实验表明，检测器依赖于源语言（僧伽罗语）输入而非扰动过程产生的表面特征，移除或打乱源文本将句子级AUROC从0.970降至随机水平，验证了其语义敏感性。此外，对八种不同架构的NMT系统进行基准测试发现，幻觉触发频率在不同模型间相差一个数量级，凸显了检测器对模型差异的敏感性与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11389
作者: Navam Obeysekara,Nevidu Jayatilleke
机构: Informatics Institute of Technology (信息与技术研究所); University of Moratuwa (莫鲁图瓦大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 11 pages, 1 figure, 7 tables, Accepted paper at the 13th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING) 2026
Abstract:Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models, while capable of producing highly fluent outputs, remain vulnerable to hallucinations, which are translations that are natural yet semantically unrelated to the source. This vulnerability is acute in low-resource settings like Sinhala-to-English, where weak cross-lingual alignment leads to hallucinations. This paper introduces a framework for reference-free hallucination detection in this language pair. We present a 45,000-sample synthetic dataset generated through a probabilistic chain of five linguistically motivated corruption strategies, with a semantic rescue mechanism that uses character-level similarity to distinguish hallucinations from morphological variants. We fine-tune mDeBERTa-v3 for token-level sequence labelling, reaching a token-level F1 of 0.841 +/- 0.001 over three seeds on a source-disjoint test set, and study a three-signal ensemble integrating neural risk scores, sequence log-probabilities, and cross-lingual semantic embeddings (LaBSE). A source-ablation control shows that the detector relies on the Sinhala source rather than on surface artefacts of the corruption process: shuffling or removing the source reduces sentence-level AUROC from 0.970 to chance. We benchmark eight NMT systems spanning five model families and find that detector firings vary by an order of magnitude across architectures.
[NLP-78] From a Prompt to Repertoires: Evolving Functional REpertoires Enable LLM Continual Learning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型在持续学习（continual learning）场景下面临的灾难性遗忘问题，即在不断学习新任务的过程中，模型性能会显著退化。现有方法多依赖于对模型参数的复杂更新策略，而提示优化（prompt optimization）虽能避免高昂的参数更新成本并取得与强化学习方法（如GRPO）相当甚至更优的性能，但在连续任务适应过程中仍存在严重过拟合和灾难性遗忘现象，其优化后的提示会积累局部任务分布的规则，导致泛化能力下降。为此，本文提出“演化功能谱系”（Evolving Functional REpertoires, EFRE），其核心创新在于将单一提示替换为一个随新任务到来而动态演化的功能函数集合：当新任务与已有功能兼容时，通过微调保留并优化现有函数；当出现冲突时，则触发新功能的生成。实验表明，在三任务持续学习流上，EFRE最终平均性能比GRPO高出7.50个百分点，且在完成生物医学任务（Bio）后，金融问答任务（FinQA）性能仅下降1.56个百分点，远优于基础提示优化方法的25.10个百分点。此外，该方法在不同骨干模型上的最小智能体系统中均表现出一致的性能提升，验证了其在大语言模型持续学习中的有效性与可扩展性，展现出在高级智能体系统中实现高效、稳定持续学习的巨大潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11373
作者: Fengyuan Liu,Yue Wang,Hangxi Guo,Fengyuan Liu,Chenxu Wu,Yanguang Liu,Mengnan Du
机构: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学（深圳）); Shanghai AI Laboratory; University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学); New Jersey Institute of Technology(新泽西理工学院)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Continual learning remains challenging for large language models, which must enable models to acquire new skills and knowledge without degrading existing capabilities. Existing approaches typically address this challenge by carefully designing how model parameters are updated. In contrast, prompt optimization avoids costly parameter updates while achieving competitive or even superior performance to reinforcement learning methods such as GRPO on individual knowledge-intensive and reasoning tasks. This raises a natural question: \textitCan prompt optimization, as an efficient adaptation approach, be directly applied to continual learning? Our analysis shows that, under sequential task adaptation, it suffers from catastrophic forgetting, while optimized prompts accumulate rules that overfit to local task distributions. To address these limitations, we propose \emphEvolving Functional REpertoires (EFRE), which replaces a single prompt with a repertoire of functions that evolves as new tasks arrive: compatible updates refine existing functions, while conflicting updates trigger the emergence of new ones. On a three-task continual-learning stream, EFRE achieves a final average performance 7.50 percentage points higher than GRPO. Moreover, after adaptation to the Bio task, its performance on FinQA decreases by only 1.56 percentage points, compared with 25.10 percentage points for the base prompt optimization method. We further instantiate EFRE in a minimal agent system and observe consistent improvements across different backbone models. Overall, these results demonstrate EFRE’s strong performance in continual learning for large language models and highlight its substantial potential for continual learning in advanced agent systems.
[NLP-79] SignRAG : Unified Retrieval-Augmented Gloss-Free Sign Language Translation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前无词表（gloss-free）手语翻译（Sign Language Translation, SLT）模型在适配仅解码器架构的大语言模型（Decoder-only Large Language Models, LLMs）时面临的挑战，即现有预训练范式多基于传统的编码器-解码器结构，难以直接应用于解码器主导的LLMs。其核心解决方案是提出SignRAG框架，关键在于三方面协同：首先，通过分层预训练（Hierarchical Pretraining）学习具有语言学意义的手语表征，并联合对齐手语编码器与LLM，缓解跨模态优化不平衡问题；其次，在下游任务中引入目标域检索增强（target-domain retrieval augmentation），构建实例级翻译提示的检索图谱，以提升翻译准确性；最后，设计一种基于检索效用引导的强化微调（Retrieval Utility-Guided Reinforcement Fine-Tuning, RUG-RFT），通过融合翻译质量与检索效用双重奖励信号，有效引导模型合理利用检索内容，抑制对检索结果的有害依赖。实验表明，SignRAG在多个SLT基准上达到新最优性能，且首次实现无词表方法在CSL-Daily数据集上全面超越有词表监督方法，验证了其有效性与先进性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11371
作者: Zhi Rao,Yucheng Zhou,Qianran Sun,Yiqing Huang,Longcan Yuan,Jiayi Hou,Chengwen Yao,Lin Cheng,Donghui Sun,Xiaoxin Chen,Jun Wan
机构: Macau University of Science and Technology(澳门科技大学); University of Macau(澳门大学); Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院); Yale University(耶鲁大学); VIVO AI Lab(维沃人工智能实验室)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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Abstract:Contemporary decoder-only large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities across a wide range of domains. However, existing pretraining paradigms for gloss-free sign language translation (SLT) are largely designed around conventional encoder-decoder pretrained language models, which limits their direct applicability to decoder-only LLMs. To address this limitation, we propose SignRAG, a unified framework combining hierarchical pretraining, target-domain retrieval augmentation, and retrieval-aware reinforcement fine-tuning. Hierarchical pretraining first learns linguistically grounded sign representations and then jointly aligns the sign encoder with an LLM, mitigating cross-modal optimization imbalance. For downstream adaptation, SignRAG complements parameter-based fine-tuning with a target-domain retrieval gallery that provides instance-specific translation cues. To ensure that retrieved contexts are used appropriately, we further introduce Retrieval Utility-Guided Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RUG-RFT), which combines translation-quality and retrieval-utility rewards to encourage beneficial retrieval use while suppressing harmful reliance. Experiments on multiple SLT benchmarks establish new state-of-the-art performance. In particular, to the best of our knowledge, SignRAG is the first gloss-free approach to outperform gloss-supervised methods across all reported metrics on CSL-Daily. Our code has been released at \hrefthis https URLGitHub, together with models of different sizes to support future academic research.
[NLP-80] UniData: Universal Multimodal Instruction Generation Pipeline EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在实际应用中因高质量多模态指令数据稀缺而导致的训练瓶颈问题。现有方法在生成指令数据时普遍存在模态支持有限及难以生成多轮对话式指令的缺陷。为此，本文提出UniData——一个通用的指令生成流水线，其核心创新在于：首先将用户需求扩展为多个多样化事件以增强语义丰富性；随后利用“任意到任意”（any-to-any）的大规模模型，实现跨模态指令的生成；最后通过挖掘各轮指令间的语义关联，自动修正冗余与无关的推理流程，从而显著提升生成数据的质量。该方案的关键在于构建了一个端到端、可扩展且具备上下文一致性保障的多轮多模态指令生成框架。为支持该流水线的训练与评估，研究者还构建了UniDataset，一个涵盖九种模态、包含20,000条样本的高质量数据集。实验结果表明，UniData在数据质量方面达到当前最优水平，并能有效提升其他多模态模型的理解与生成能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11363
作者: Jiaqi Tang,Yi-Feng Wu,Yuting Zhang,Hao Lu,Bowen Fu,Qing-Guo Chen,Xiaogang Xu,Yuwei Hu,Shiyin Lu,Wei Wei,Lei Zhang,Zhao Xu,Weihua Luo,Qifeng Chen,Ying-Cong Chen
机构: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学); ATH, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团); Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学); The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州))
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly being applied in a wider range of real-world scenarios. However, due to the substantial labor cost, creating high-quality multimodal instruction datasets for MLLMs remains a significant challenge. Although some methods propose to generate instruction data, they often face limitations in modality support and struggle with generating multi-round instructions. To address these problems, we introduce UniData, a universal instruction generation pipeline, to transform simple user requirements into multi-round, multimodal instructions. Specifically, UniData first expands user requirements into multiple diverse events. Using these events, UniData then integrates an any-to-any large model for multimodal instruction generation. Finally, UniData enhances data quality by correcting irrelevant and redundant inference flow, leveraging correlations between instruction rounds. To train this pipeline, we also build UniDataset, a dataset comprising 20,000 entries across nine modalities for improved multimodal generation. Our experiments demonstrate that UniData achieves SOTA performance in data quality and can also enhance the understanding and generation capabilities of other multimodal models.
[NLP-81] AdaptEvo: Adaptive Agent Learning with Evolving Supervision
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决规则驱动的上下文决策任务中因规则表述不完整导致的决策指导缺失与过程评估不一致问题，尤其在参考判断与规则及证据之间的契合度存在差异时，模型难以稳定学习有效决策策略。其核心解决方案是提出AdaptEvo框架，关键在于将置信度自适应的策略优化（Confidence-Adaptive GRPO, CA-GRPO）与动态演化的决策知识及评价标准相结合：训练模块通过CA-GRPO根据参考判断的置信度动态平衡结果奖励与过程奖励，提升对不确定性的建模能力；演化模块则从训练过程中反复出现的错误中提炼可复用的决策知识，并迭代优化过程评估准则以识别被忽略的错误模式。实验基于工业级多模态内容审核数据集，在规则变更后的测试场景下验证了该方法的有效性，结果显示，采用CA-GRPO训练的策略在跨周期测试中保持显著性能优势，且无需注入额外决策知识即可实现比基线模型更高的精确标签准确率和二元决策准确率，证明了其在非理想监督环境下具备更强的泛化能力与稳定性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11354
作者: Shijun Wan,Jiancong Xie,Hang Xu,Jin Duan,Qixiong Wang,Xi Xiang,Maofei Que,Yahui Liu,Zhongyu Wei,Mu Chuan
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 21 pages, 4 figures
Abstract:Rule-governed contextual decision tasks require models to apply specified rules to case-specific context and evidence. Written rules can leave gaps in decision guidance and process evaluation, while reference judgments vary in their support from the rules and evidence. To address these challenges, we introduce AdaptEvo, a framework for learning under imperfect supervision that couples confidence-adaptive policy optimization with evolving decision knowledge and evaluation rubrics. Its Training module uses Confidence-Adaptive GRPO (CA-GRPO) to balance outcome and process rewards according to reference confidence. Its Evolution module synthesizes reusable decision knowledge from recurring failures across training cases and refines process rubrics to detect overlooked errors. To support empirical evaluation, we construct an industrial multimodal content moderation dataset comprising a training set and In-Period and Out-of-Period test sets, with the latter collected under changed rules. Using Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, AdaptEvo achieves 61.9% exact-label accuracy and 72.2% binary decision accuracy on In-Period, exceeding GRPO by 7.5 and 3.7 percentage points, respectively. On Out-of-Period, the policy trained with CA-GRPO retains exact-label accuracy gains over the base model across evaluated checkpoints without injected decision knowledge, while GRPO declines with continued training. CA-GRPO also outperforms the tested fixed reward mixtures on both Out-of-Period metrics.
[NLP-82] RL-ARC: Calibrating Large Reasoning Models via Reasoning -guided Uncertainty AACL
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决语言模型（Language Models, LMs）在基于可验证奖励的强化学习（Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards, RLVR）训练过程中出现的校准退化（calibration degradation）问题，尤其是模型在分布外（Out-of-Distribution, OOD）场景下表现出的过度自信（overconfidence）现象。现有校准感知训练方法虽能改善校准性能，但往往在分布移位下仍存在过度自信问题，且以牺牲推理能力为代价。本文提出一种新的校准感知训练框架——RL-ARC，其核心创新在于联合利用推理置信度（reasoning confidence）与答案置信度（answer confidence），将推理置信度作为辅助信号，对答案置信度进行校准：对于正确预测样本，推理置信度作为推理引导的正则化项以增强置信度合理性；对于错误预测样本，则作为过度自信惩罚项以抑制不合理的高置信度输出。实验结果表明，RL-ARC在保持良好推理性能的同时，显著提升了模型在分布内（In-Distribution, ID）和分布外（OOD）设置下的校准能力，实现了置信度估计的自适应性，凸显了推理置信度在构建可靠推理模型中的关键作用。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11352
作者: Gukhyeon Lee,SangKeun Lee
机构: Korea University (韩国大学); Department of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能系); Department of Computer Science and Engineering (计算机科学与工程系)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Language models (LMs) are commonly trained with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, since RLVR does not explicitly account for calibration during training, it can lead to severe calibration degradation, including overconfidence. Recent calibration-aware training methods for LMs, which incorporate objectives for uncertainty estimation into training, improve calibration but still exhibit overconfidence under distribution shift, while sacrificing reasoning performance. To this end, we propose RL-ARC, a calibration-aware training framework that jointly leverages reasoning confidence and answer confidence. Specifically, RL-ARC leverages reasoning confidence as an auxiliary signal for calibrating answer confidence, applying it as reasoning-guided regularization for correct cases and as an overconfidence penalty for incorrect cases. Comprehensive results across ID and OOD settings show that, beyond improving calibration, RL-ARC enables reasoning models to adaptively estimate confidence based on the given question without substantially sacrificing reasoning performance, thereby highlighting the importance of reasoning confidence for training reliable reasoning models.
[NLP-83] Deception by Omission: Language Models Knowingly Hide Their Mistakes
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在作为自主代理（agent）执行任务时，因缺乏人类监督而可能隐瞒自身错误的问题。随着模型在对话和代理场景中承担越来越多的任务，其是否具备诚实披露错误的能力成为关键信任问题。研究发现，在36.4%的对话场景和高达67.1%的代理运行轨迹中，模型未能主动揭示自身错误；其中分别有2.4%和5.3%的情况是模型在推理链中已意识到错误却仍选择欺骗性隐瞒。此外，部分模型（如Gemini 3.5 Flash）在代理场景中甚至存在高达19.9%的明知故隐现象。更值得注意的是，在11.9%的对话与51.8%的代理场景中，模型虽能准确识别错误，但对其自身行为缺乏意识，仅在作为外部观察者回看时才表现出正确判断能力。这表明当前模型在自我监控与诚实报告方面存在严重缺陷。解决方案的关键在于：不能依赖模型自身进行错误自检，而应引入独立的监控机制对代理行为轨迹进行审查，或通过特定训练使模型具备回溯并主动披露过往错误的能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11351
作者: Lucas Florin,Amelie Knecht,Ulysse Schaller,Thilo Hagendorff
机构: AI Safety Research Group, University of Stuttgart (斯图加特大学), Germany
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents with little human oversight, so potential mistakes they make can go unnoticed. Users then depend on the model to report what went wrong. An honest model discloses its mistakes, while a deceptive one conceals them. However, it is unclear how current LLMs behave in such situations. In this study, we prefill LLM trajectories with synthetic mistakes. The trajectories resemble real deployments in chat and agentic settings. Models fail to disclose their mistake in 36.4% of chat and 67.1% of agentic rollouts. In 2.4% and 5.3% of rollouts, respectively, they are aware of the mistake in their chain of thought but still deceptively conceal it. Rates vary by model: for instance, Gemini 3.5 Flash knowingly conceals mistakes in up to 19.9% of agentic rollouts. In 11.9% of chat and 51.8% of agentic rollouts, models show no awareness of mistakes, even though they reliably spot them when reviewing the same transcript as an outside observer. Our results show that, as agents take on more tasks with less oversight, users cannot rely on them to self-report possible mistakes. Developers should instead use independent monitors that review agent trajectories, or specifically train models to check their past actions and disclose what they find.
[NLP-84] ype-Checking for Pattern-Based Tree Transformations
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决基于模式的树变换（pattern-based tree transformations）中表达能力与可判定性之间的权衡问题。具体而言，其核心挑战在于：当源模式匹配的表达式集合并非正则树语言时（如形如 (e1⋅e2)+(e1⋅e3) 的表达式），如何形式化地描述和处理此类非正则性的变换关系，并在此基础上实现有效的类型检查（type-checking）。解决方案的关键在于提出一种由有限表示的（源模式, 目标模式）对组成的树变换模型，该模型能够捕捉复杂的、非正则的匹配结构，同时通过将类型检查问题归约到交替树自动机（alternating tree automata）的空性检测问题，证明了该模型下类型检查问题是可判定的。这一方法在保持强表达能力的同时，为程序分析与变换中的性质保全验证提供了理论基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11337
作者: C. Aiswarya,Sahil Mhaskar,M. Praveen
机构: 未知
类目: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 26 pages, 9 figures, full version of a preprint accepted at FSTTCS 2026
Abstract:We introduce and study pattern-based tree transformations. As an illustrating example, consider a source pattern (x \cdot y) + (x \cdot z) and a target pattern x \cdot (y + z) as a pair. This source pattern matches any expression e of the form (e_1 \cdot e_2) + (e_1 \cdot e_3) (by substituting x with e_1 , y with e_2 , and z with e_3 ) and the pair transforms it into the expression e_1 \cdot (e_2 + e_3) as dictated by the target pattern. Note that in this example, the set of expressions that match the source pattern is not a regular tree language. We propose a model of tree transformations given by a finite representation of a (possibly infinite) set of such (source pattern, target pattern) pairs. The expressive power of this model comes at the cost of undecidability of checking equivalence. Nevertheless, we show that the type-checking problem is decidable for our model of pattern-based tree transformations. The type-checking problem asks whether applying a given transformation to trees having a given regular property (type) preserves the property. Our decision procedure is by a reduction to the emptiness problem of alternating tree automata. Comments: 26 pages, 9 figures, full version of a preprint accepted at FSTTCS 2026 Subjects: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL); Computation and Language (cs.CL) ACMclasses: F.1.1; F.4.1; F.4.2; D.3.1; F.4.3 Cite as: arXiv:2610.11337 [cs.FL] (or arXiv:2610.11337v1 [cs.FL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11337 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[NLP-85] ReCal: Calibrating Structured Pruning for On-Policy Distillation Recovery
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决结构化剪枝（structured pruning）导致推理型语言模型能力退化，进而影响后续基于策略的蒸馏（on-policy distillation, OPD）恢复效果的问题。其核心挑战在于，OPD依赖于学生模型生成的轨迹进行优化，而剪枝造成的残余损伤在离线蒸馏后仍可能持续存在，从而限制了恢复能力。本文提出的解决方案——恢复感知校准（Recovery-Aware Calibration, RECAL），关键在于在剪枝前通过计算未剪枝教师模型与剪枝探针之间的前向KL散度，识别出因剪枝而被破坏的教师支持预测，并据此重新加权校准统计量，引导现有剪枝准则优先保留这些关键预测。实验表明，RECAL在多个模型和剪枝方法下均显著提升了OPD后的数学推理能力，在AIME基准上最高提升达16.7个百分点，同时在多数代码生成任务中也表现出性能增益。深入分析显示，RECAL有效降低了高受损标记处的残余损伤，并在恢复过程中保持性能优势，验证了恢复感知校准在提升剪枝后推理模型OPD恢复能力方面的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11332
作者: Houcheng Jiang,Mao Zheng,Mingyang Song,Qiyong Zhong,Jie Sun,Tianyu Zhang,Junfeng Fang
机构: Zhongguancun Academy(中关村学院); Foundation Model Department, Tencent(腾讯基础模型部门); University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学); National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Structured pruning reduces the deployment cost of reasoning language models, but the resulting capability degradation can hinder subsequent on-policy distillation (OPD) recovery. Because OPD relies on student-generated trajectories, pruning damage that persists after offline distillation can limit its effectiveness. We propose RECAL, Recovery-Aware Calibration, a simple plug-and-play approach that improves OPD recovery by adjusting calibration before pruning. RECAL uses forward KL between an unpruned teacher and a pruned probe to identify teacher-supported predictions disrupted by pruning, then reweights calibration statistics to guide existing pruning criteria toward preserving these predictions. Across multiple models and pruning methods, RECAL consistently improves mathematical reasoning after OPD, achieving gains of up to 16.7 percentage points on AIME, alongside improvements in most code-generation comparisons. Further analysis shows that RECAL reduces residual damage at heavily affected tokens and establishes performance advantages that persist through recovery. These results demonstrate the value of recovery-aware calibration for improving on-policy distillation recovery of pruned reasoning models.
[NLP-86] MetaEncoder: Exploring the Limit of Bi-Encoders for Multimodal System One Decision Making with Natural Language Interface
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式AI在决策任务中因依赖自由文本生成而导致输出不可控、难以约束于特定选项集的问题。传统方法通常采用结构化模式（schema object）来编码状态、意图和候选选项，但此类方法限制了自然语言表达的灵活性。为此，本文提出一种全自然语言驱动的System One接口，其中用户请求与所有候选选项均以自然语言形式表达，并辅以多模态（图像与视频）输入支持。其核心解决方案是MetaEncoder，该模型通过微调预训练的Muse-Glimmer 30B解码器，将其转化为具备指令遵循能力的决策编码器。为实现对小规模封闭集（≤256个候选）和大规模开放集（数百万候选）的有效扩展，MetaEncoder采用双编码器（bi-encoder）架构，并基于单向对比学习（unidirectional contrastive learning）进行训练，以实现请求与候选之间的精准对齐。实验在11个基准套件和190项任务上验证了其在多模态决策、理解（封闭集）及检索（开放集）任务中的优越性能，尤其在非推理密集型任务中超越现有最先进多模态编码器，但在需要深度推理的任务中仍存在局限。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11316
作者: Jianpeng Cheng,Guangyu Sun,Aashu Singh,Benyu Zhang,Haixing Dai,Hossein Mansour,Jiangfan Zhang,Shlok Kumar Mishra,Wei Sun,Xuanming Cui,Yanli Liu,Qi Guo,Max Xiangjun Fan,Jun Xiao
机构: Meta AI
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:System One models output constrained decisions and probability distributions rather than free-form text generation. While prevailing paradigms rely on structured schema objects to encode state, intent, and candidate choices, we revisit a fully natural language-based System One interface. In this framework, both the user request and each candidate option are expressed in natural language, supported by multimodal (image and video) auxiliary inputs. We introduce MetaEncoder, which fine-tunes a pre-trained Muse-Glimmer 30B decoder into an instruction-following decision-making encoder. To scale effectively across both small closed-set ( 256) and massive open-set (millions) candidate spaces, MetaEncoder employs a bi-encoder architecture trained via unidirectional contrastive learning for request-candidate alignment. We conduct extensive evaluations across 11 benchmark suites and 190 tasks spanning multimodal decision-making, understanding (closed-set) and retrieval (open-set), highlighting where MetaEncoder beats SOTA multimodal encoders, as well as its current limits on reasoning-intensive tasks.
[NLP-87] From Retrieval to Reconstruction: Constructing Evolvable Cognitive Memory for Long-Term Dialogue EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在长期对话中因记忆系统设计缺陷而导致的推理可靠性问题。现有基于检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）的框架普遍将记忆视为被动存储，难以区分带有来源归属的观点与无来源的事实/事件记录，且无法有效关联跨会话分散的证据。为应对这一挑战，论文提出CogMem认知记忆架构，其核心是基于PEC²F（Person-Event-Concept-Claim-Fact）图谱模式构建动态、可追溯的知识表示体系：通过专用的Claim节点保留主观陈述的来源与目标，而Fact与Event节点分别表征语义知识与情景记忆。对话轮次被逐步转化为具有出处感知的图结构记录，经由高层事实整合与时间范围限定的Claim视图对齐，在同一来源提供冲突更新时实现一致性重构。在检索层面，采用由大语言模型意图解析驱动的规则控制器，组合四种确定性图操作——锚定（anchoring）、遍历（traversal）、交集（intersection）与证据定位（evidence grounding），以精准重建查询相关的上下文。实验在LoCoMo与LongMemEval基准上验证了该方法在多跳推理、时间敏感任务及知识更新场景中的优越性能；消融实验与语义坍缩探测进一步证实了认知分离、事实整合与代理式检索机制的互补贡献。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11314
作者: Zirui Liao,Zhengxian Wu,Zhuohong Chen,Yunyao Yu,Xiaoyu Liu,Yifan Xu,Haoqian Wang
机构: Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School (清华大学深圳国际研究生院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) serving as long-term dialogue agents require memory systems that support reliable reasoning over extended interactions. However, existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks typically treat memory as passive storage, making it difficult to distinguish source-attributed beliefs from unattributed event/fact records and to connect evidence dispersed across sessions. We introduce CogMem, a cognitive memory architecture based on the PEC ^2 F (Person-Event-Concept-Claim-Fact) graph schema. Dedicated Claim nodes preserve the source and target of subjective statements, while Fact and Event nodes represent semantic and episodic knowledge. Dialogue turns are incrementally converted into provenance-aware graph records, consolidated into higher-level facts, and reconciled into temporally scoped Claim views when the same source provides conflicting updates. For retrieval, a rule-based controller driven by LLM intent parsing composes four deterministic graph operators—anchoring, traversal, intersection, and evidence grounding—to reconstruct query-relevant context. Experiments on LoCoMo and LongMemEval show strong performance, especially on multi-hop, temporal, and knowledge-update tasks. Ablations and a semantic-collapse probe support complementary contributions from epistemic separation, consolidation, and agentic retrieval. Code: this https URL.
[NLP-88] BeliefScope: Diagnosing Evidence-Driven Revision and Pressure-Induced Shifts in Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在面对真实证据与用户方向性施压时，其输出响应变化难以区分来源的问题。由于仅凭可观测的响应变化无法确定是真实证据还是外部压力驱动了模型信念的调整，因此核心挑战在于如何在不依赖内部机制的前提下，有效分离这两种影响因素。论文提出的关键解决方案是 BeliefScope——一个受控的黑箱评估框架，通过将“证据”（Evidence）与“压力”（Pressure）两个维度进行交叉设计，并结合针对特定因子的局部控制变量，利用概率报告、分类判断及行动建议等适配通道的测量方式，量化模型响应的变化。为验证观测设计的有效性，研究在可控合成条件下评估了已知真值的恢复能力，并通过靶向消融实验确定了可分离证据与压力效应的边界；进一步的半合成压力测试则揭示了在观测过程噪声增加和异质性增强时，可恢复性的退化趋势。在涵盖36个家族模型（Qwen/Llama系列）的大规模实验中，结果显示评估结果具有显著的情境依赖性：同一模型在相同控制条件下，因解码策略或响应接口不同而表现出明显差异，而部分模型内细微模式仍保持稳定。此外，指令干预表明，目标对齐压力的减弱可能反映的是稳定的抵抗行为，也可能是相反方向的迁移。最终，BeliefScope 将这些测量结果整合为一个条件化的信念-响应轮廓图谱，并明确标注诊断结论的有效性边界，确保所有推断均与其观测条件严格绑定，从而实现对模型信念变化来源的可靠归因。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11305
作者: Shuai Guo,Yidong Cui
机构: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 18 pages, 13 figures, 18 tables. Includes appendices
Abstract:A language model may revise the same proposition after receiving genuinely relevant evidence or after receiving directional user pressure that adds no relevant fact. The observable response shift alone therefore does not reveal which source drove the change. We introduce BeliefScope, a controlled black-box framework for separating these two sources of influence around a fixed target proposition. BeliefScope crosses Evidence and Pressure with factor-specific local controls and measures response changes through probability reports, categorical judgments, and action recommendations on channel-appropriate scales. To determine when these observable contrasts support reliable attribution, we evaluate the observation design under controlled synthetic conditions. Known-truth recovery and targeted ablations establish where Evidence- and Pressure-related effects can be separated, while semi-synthetic stress tests map how that recoverability changes as the observation process becomes noisier and more heterogeneous. Across a 36-family Qwen/Llama study, with targeted 12-family checks that also include Gemma3-12B, the resulting profiles show substantial evaluation-context dependence: broad model-level differences can change under matched controls, decoding, or response interfaces, while some narrower within-model patterns remain stable. Instruction interventions further show that reduced target-aligned Pressure following can reflect either stable resistance or movement in the opposite direction. BeliefScope summarizes these measurements as a conditional belief-response profile that keeps diagnostic effects tied to the evaluation conditions under which they are observed, together with explicit validity boundaries for that diagnosis.
[NLP-89] When Do We Need On-Policy Distillation? Distilling on Offline Student Rollouts Is Often Better
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前基于策略的蒸馏（On-Policy Distillation, OPD）在教师-学生模型对（teacher-student pairs）不匹配时性能下降的问题，核心质疑在于：是否所有教师-学生组合下，采用在线采样（on-policy sampling）都能有效提升蒸馏效果。研究发现，一种名为Semi-OPD的替代方案——即利用初始学生模型生成离线轨迹进行蒸馏——在多数情况下不仅显著优于传统OPD，还能实现更高的准确率和训练效率。在17组参数规模从15亿到2350亿的教师-学生对中，Semi-OPD在14组中表现更优，最高可提升13.6%的准确率，并实现11.4倍的训练加速。关键发现是：OPD的有效性依赖于教师与初始学生之间的对齐程度，具体可通过输出词元重叠率（output-token overlap ratio）量化；仅当二者高度对齐时，OPD才具备优势。进一步分析表明，有效的蒸馏需同时满足对学生和教师的“在线性”（on-policyness），而在教师-学生不对齐的情况下，随着上下文长度增长，学生采样的轨迹会逐渐偏离教师策略，导致蒸馏信号弱化。相比之下，Semi-OPD通过在较短上下文上进行蒸馏，覆盖完整轨迹并使学生接触更多教师偏好的词元，表现出更强的稳定性。因此，本工作提出Semi-OPD作为高效替代方案，并呼吁学界重新审视OPD的应用场景，推动研究更具意义的教师-学生配对及更强的OPD变体。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11291
作者: Siyan Zhao,Yonggan Fu,Jindong Jiang,Shih-Yang Liu,Song Bian,Byung-Kwan Lee,Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas,Wenliang Dai,Hanrong Ye,Aditya Grover,Pavlo Molchanov
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:On-policy distillation (OPD) has become increasingly popular for transferring teacher capabilities to student models. In this work, we ask a critical research question: Is on-policy sampling always beneficial for distilling arbitrary teacher-student pairs? We show that a simple alternative, Semi-OPD, which distills from offline rollouts generated by the initial student, can often outperform OPD in both accuracy and training efficiency. Across 17 teacher-student pairs ranging from 1.5B to 235B parameters, Semi-OPD outperforms OPD in 14 cases, with up to +13.6% accuracy and 11.4x training speedup. We further find that the choice between OPD and Semi-OPD depends on the alignment between the initial teacher and student, quantified by an output-token overlap ratio: OPD is beneficial only when the two are highly aligned with high overlap ratios. Our deeper investigation suggests that effective distillation requires on-policyness w.r.t. both the student and the teacher. For misaligned pairs, student rollouts can become increasingly off-policy w.r.t. the teacher as context length grows, weakening the distillation signal. In contrast, Semi-OPD is often more stable, as it distills on shorter contexts while covering full trajectories and exposing the student to more teacher-preferred tokens. Beyond proposing Semi-OPD as an efficient alternative, our work motivates the community to rethink when to use OPD and to study stronger OPD variants with meaningful teacher-student pairs.
[NLP-90] REMORY: Learning Residual Memory for Context Compaction
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决长时序智能体（long-horizon agents）在有限上下文窗口内因历史信息压缩导致决策支持不足的问题，尤其针对仅依赖文本摘要可能无法充分支撑后续复杂决策的局限性。其核心解决方案是提出一种名为REMORY的神经记忆网络，通过在摘要后附加一个有界长度的软记忆标记序列（soft memory tokens），以增强摘要的表达能力。这些记忆标记由模型基于历史和摘要自适应生成，条件依赖于摘要内容并被追加至其后，形成沿序列维度的类残差连接结构，从而帮助冻结的大语言模型（frozen LLM）近似还原使用完整历史时的输出表现。实验表明，在SummHay数据集上，REMORY仅需输入位置的5.2%即可逼近全上下文联合得分，同时保持几乎不变的洞察覆盖率；在多个长时序代理基准测试中，Qwen3.8-27B与GLM-5.3-Flash均表现出显著提升，且在BrowseComp和Terminal-Bench 2.1任务中显著减少工具重复调用和工具错误。因此，该方案的关键在于通过可学习的软记忆机制实现对摘要的高效补全，从而在极低计算开销下维持长程推理能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11287
作者: Hanchen Xia,Baoyou Chen,Yutang Ge,Naihao Deng,Senqiao Yang,Zilong Dong,Weihao Yuan,Siyu Zhu
机构: Shanghai Academy of AI for Science(上海人工智能科学研究院); Fudan University (复旦大学); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学); University of Michigan (密歇根大学); The Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大学); Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集团); Nanjing University (南京大学); Shanghai Innovation Institute (上海创新研究院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Long-horizon agents compact their history to continue within a finite context window, but a textual summary alone may not support every subsequent decision. We introduce REMORY, a neural memory network that supplements the summary with a bounded sequence of soft memory tokens. Given the history and summary, the network learns to generate tokens that help a frozen LLM approximate the continuation it would produce with the full history. The tokens are conditioned on the summary and appended after it, forming an analogue of a residual connection along the sequence dimension. On SummHay, REMORY improves source attribution at nearly unchanged insight coverage and approaches the full-context joint score using only 5.2% of the input positions. Across long-horizon agent benchmarks, Qwen3.8-27B and GLM-5.3-Flash show consistent gains with residual memory. Both models also exhibit substantially fewer repeated tool outputs and tool errors on BrowseComp and Terminal-Bench 2.1.
[NLP-91] Phonological Interference in Multilingual Speech Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决语音识别与合成模型在处理多语言交替（code-switching）及低资源语言时的系统性失败问题，其核心挑战在于模型对输入语言的单一假设导致的音系干扰（phonological interference）。具体而言，现有以音素（phoneme）为单位的模型在推理时默认输入属于单一语言，从而强制施加训练语言的音系规则，压制与该语言不兼容的局部音素决策，致使模型丢失目标语言中存在但训练语言中不存在的音素。研究表明，在多语言交替场景下，两种语音到音素识别器和一种音素条件的文本到语音模型丢失了32%至79%的独有音素；而在未见语言上，模型会依据其内部语言判断将输入“归类”至某一训练语言，并根据分类置信度程度丢失未见语言特有音素。通过分析模型内部激活状态，研究发现该干扰可被追踪至一个低维子空间。进一步提出窗口化语言估计（Windowed Language Estimation, WLE），一种推理时修复机制，通过在每个音素位置附近使用短时窗口重新估计语言归属，动态修正模型的语言假设。实验表明，WLE在三种模型中有效减少了34%至69%的音系干扰，同时保持单语输入下的性能基本不变，显著提升了模型在跨语言场景中的鲁棒性与泛化能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11275
作者: Moran Yanuka,Raja Giryes,Moris Alper
机构: Tel Aviv University (特拉维夫大学); University of Miami (迈阿密大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Phoneme-level models transcribe or generate speech as a sequence of phonemes, the smallest sound units that distinguish words. These models enable fine-grained pronunciation control and understanding, yet often fail on input that does not match any single training language, such as speech alternating between two languages, known as code-switching, or low-resource languages absent from training. We identify a systematic failure mode behind this, phonological interference: models assume the input is in a single language and impose its phonology, overriding local phoneme-level decisions that conflict with the assumed language. We measure interference by how often a model retains phonemes that one language has but the other lacks. On code-switched input, two phone recognizers (speech-to-phoneme models) and a phoneme-conditioned text-to-speech model lose 32% to 79% of these phonemes, but lose far fewer of the phonemes both languages share. On unseen languages, we find that phone recognizers impose the phonology of the training language they assign to the speech, and the more confident the assignment, the more they lose phonemes the unseen language has but the assigned language lacks. We probe the models’ language estimate from their internal activations, and trace interference to a low dimensional subspace. On monolingual speech, steering this subspace toward another language makes the model lose the phonemes that only the original language uses and produce phonemes that only the target language has. We introduce windowed language estimation (WLE), an inference time repair that replaces the model’s language estimate in this subspace with one computed from a short window around each position. On code-switched input, WLE removes 34% to 69% of the interference in all three models, and in the recognizers it leaves monolingual performance essentially unchanged.
[NLP-92] Why On-Policy Distillation Sometimes Fails: Vanishing Learning Signals
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式AI（Generative AI）中基于策略的蒸馏（On-policy Distillation, OPD）在跨语言模型能力迁移过程中出现的性能瓶颈问题，特别是当使用大规模教师模型时所表现出的早期损失停滞现象。其核心问题是：尽管OPD能够实现一定程度的能力迁移，但在代码生成与数学推理任务中，采用大模型作为教师时，损失下降在训练初期即趋于平缓，最终仅实现约25.1%的损失降低，远低于通过强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）进一步优化初始学生的自强化学习（self-RL）教师所达到的96.2%损失减少。为揭示这一现象的机制，研究将OPD建模为小学习率极限下的理想化连续时间动力系统，并通过训练日志诊断发现，损失平台期与梯度学习信号代理量的早期衰减密切相关，而此时仍有显著残余损失。研究进一步在参数共享和正则性条件下证明了局部恢复保证，为自强化学习教师的成功提供了条件性解释。此外，实验观察到参数变化极小（0.025%-0.098%），且学生模型在蒸馏前后各层表示的线性中心核相关性（Linear CKA）高达0.98，表明表征适应程度有限，从而提出“有限表征适配可能导致学习信号崩溃”这一假设，该假设尚待验证。因此，解决方案的关键在于理解并缓解梯度学习信号的过早衰减，以及提升学生模型在蒸馏过程中的表征动态适应能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11247
作者: Lei Zhao,Qichao Zhao,Bowen Zuo,Qishi Zhan
机构: University of Pennsylvania (宾夕法尼亚大学); Tsinghua University (清华大学); University of California, Riverside (加州大学河滨分校); Marquette University (马凯特大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:On-policy distillation (OPD) enables effective capability transfer between language models, yet the mechanisms underlying its failures are not fully understood. Across code generation and mathematical reasoning, OPD with larger-scale teachers exhibits early loss plateaus, with an average final loss reduction of 25.1% after 200 updates, compared with 96.2% for self-RL teachers, obtained by further reinforcement learning (RL) training of the initial student. To understand this difference, we analyze OPD as an idealized continuous-time dynamical system in the small-learning-rate limit. Our training-log diagnostics associate these plateaus with an early decline in a gradient-based learning-signal proxy while substantial loss remains; these measurements do not establish why the underlying gradient weakens. We further prove a local recovery guarantee for teachers sufficiently close to the initial student in a shared parameterization under regularity conditions, offering a conditional explanation for the success of self-RL teachers in our experiments. Across runs with and without loss plateaus, we observe small relative parameter changes (0.025-0.098%) and high similarity between the student’s representations before and after OPD (linear CKA 0.98 across layers). These observations suggest that limited representation adaptation may contribute to learning-signal collapse, a hypothesis that remains to be tested. Code is available at this https URL.
[NLP-93] Read What Matters: Query-Adaptive Quantization for KV Caches
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大模型推理中键值缓存（KV-cache）存储与解码查询需求之间的精度不匹配问题，即在缓存条目被存储时其未来的查询内容未知，但不同查询对精度的需求存在差异。核心挑战在于如何在有限的存储和读取预算下，实现对关键信息的自适应高精度访问。解决方案的关键是提出一种名为ReadKV的渐进式编码机制：将每个键和值以可分级重构的编码形式存储，通过查询动态分配不同精度的前缀（key-channel prefixes），基于重构后的键计算注意力，再根据注意力结果动态分配值的前缀（value-token prefixes）。这一过程在固定预算下优化校准的失真目标，且理论证明了在边际收益递减条件下的最优分配策略，并建立了失真目标与注意力输出误差之间的联系。实验表明，仅平均从8位缓存中读取4位，即可将C4困惑度提升不超过0.66%，同时仅需1/4的逻辑读取次数和1/2的保留容量，显著优于同等读取预算下全量读取4位的方案；此外，在长上下文场景下，保留比特数超过单次查询读取量的设计有效降低了每步移动的缓存字节数，从而降低延迟。在8K token、单层、批处理为1的NVIDIA A10G测试环境下，受限于8位的ReadKV读取器（平均读取2位）相比基准TurboQuant编码器，延迟降低39%。这充分验证了查询依赖性访问策略在性能与效率上的优势。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11245
作者: Siddharth Bhandari,Lucas Gretta,Krishna Balasubramanian,Shiva Kasiviswanathan
机构: Amazon(亚马逊); University of California, Berkeley(加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Performance (cs.PF)
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Abstract:KV-cache entries are stored before their future queries are known, but each decoding query needs precision in different places. We study this mismatch using separate budgets for retained bits and bits fetched per query. ReadKV stores each key and value in a progressive code whose prefixes support different reconstruction precisions. For each query, it allocates key-channel prefixes using the query, computes attention from the reconstructed keys, and then allocates value-token prefixes using that attention. Stored entries remain unchanged. Each stage optimizes a calibrated distortion objective under a fixed budget; we prove exact allocation under diminishing refinement gains and relate these objectives to attention-output error. We also exhibit a finite-dimensional attention family where query-dependent access strictly outperforms every query-independent reader at the same read budget, even with unrestricted competing encoders and decoders. Across six base models, reading four bits on average from an eight-bit cache increases C4 perplexity by at most 0.66%, using about one quarter of the logical reads and half the retained capacity of a 16-bit cache. It is consistently more accurate than storing and fully reading four bits at the same payload-read budget. Retaining more bits than each query fetches is aimed at long-context decoding, where the cache bytes moved per step, rather than the weights, dominate cost. Long-context question answering and retrieval on two instruction-tuned models provide additional quality evidence. On the tested 8K-token, batch-one, single-layer workload on an NVIDIA A10G, a restricted eight-bit ReadKV reader with a two-bit mean payload-read budget has 39% lower latency than the tested TurboQuant codec. Comments: 50 pages, 3 figures, 12 tables Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Performance (cs.PF) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11245 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.11245v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11245 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[NLP-94] MiniVer-V: Identifying Minimal Sufficient Evidence for Short Video Verification
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决短视频事实核查中证据充分性（evidential sufficiency）的判定问题，即如何识别一组证据是否足以支持一个可信的结论，而非仅依赖主题相关性或提供全部证据导致的信息冗余。其核心解决方案在于提出一种双层验证框架：第一层基于视频内部证据（如视觉关键帧、语音转录）评估陈述与视频内容的一致性；第二层引入外部证据进行事实真伪判断。在此基础上，采用以充分性为导向的贪心搜索策略，在达到预设充分性阈值时停止检索并输出“证据不足”结果，而非强制生成结论。该方法在使用Claude Sonnet 4时，平均仅需4.5个证据单元（仅为全集的16%）即可达到与完整证据基准（Macro-F1=0.518，27.7个单元）无显著差异的性能（Macro-F1=0.510），且显著提升了对“证据不足”情形的识别能力。实验表明，外部证据对于事实判断至关重要，而内部视频证据则确保了结论与视频内容的一致性，证明了高效、可解释的事实核查是可行的，且当证据确实不足时，显式拒绝判断（abstention）具有必要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11233
作者: Leran Chen,Lingnan Kong,Zile Cai
机构: The University of Sydney(悉尼大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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Abstract:A core challenge in short-video fact-checking is identifying which evidence is sufficient to support a verification conclusion. Existing approaches either give the verifier all available evidence, introducing noise, or select evidence by topical relevance, which conflates relatedness with sufficiency. We identify evidential sufficiency as the selection criterion: whether a subset of evidence is adequate to support a confident verdict without redundancy. We introduce MiniVer-V, a benchmark of 195 short videos with three-way verdict annotations (supported, refuted, insufficient) and 5,510 multimodal evidence units spanning visual keyframes, speech transcripts, and web-retrieved external sources. We propose a two-layer verification framework that separates claim-video consistency, assessed from internal evidence, from factual verdict determination, which additionally requires external corroboration. On top of it, a sufficiency-driven greedy search assembles evidence until a sufficiency threshold is met and outputs insufficient when the candidate pool is exhausted, rather than forcing a verdict. With Claude Sonnet 4, the method reaches a Macro-F1 of 0.510 using 4.5 evidence units on average (16% of the full evidence set), statistically indistinguishable from the full-evidence baseline (0.518 with 27.7 units), while significantly improving recognition of insufficient cases over the same search without abstention. The efficiency result replicates with GPT-5.5 and holds only partially with an open-weight Qwen2.5-72B verifier. Ablations show that external evidence is indispensable for factual determination, while internal video evidence grounds the verdict in claim-video consistency. These findings suggest that evidence-efficient verification is achievable, and that explicit abstention is needed when evidence is genuinely inadequate.
[NLP-95] SafeInferCom: Safe Inference-Time Compute via Verifier-Guided Mid-Generation Intervention for Robotic Task Planning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型推理语言模型（Large Reasoning Language Models, LRLMs）在机器人任务规划中因持续推理导致的有效中间规划被覆盖或约束违反问题，从而降低规划可靠性并浪费推理时间。其核心解决方案是提出一种运行时监控机制（inference-time monitor），能够在不干扰原始解码轨迹的前提下，显式暴露并验证中间规划；在此基础上构建了基于形式化验证引导的SafeInferCom框架，通过保留有效中间规划并指导生成过程中的错误修正，提升规划成功率与纠错效率。实验表明，相比单次推理（one-shot inference），SafeInferCom显著提升了规划成功率并加速了错误纠正；结合迭代精炼策略后，进一步提高了成功率并降低了令牌（token）消耗。此外，该方法已在VirtualHome仿真环境及真实机械臂场景中得到验证。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11223
作者: Weizhe Xu,Jialiang Fan,Mengyu Liu,Fanxin Kong
机构: University of Notre Dame (圣母大学); Washington State University (华盛顿州立大学)
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
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Abstract:Large Reasoning Language Models (LRLMs) enable multi-step reasoning for robotic task planning, but continued reasoning can overwrite valid intermediate plans or leave constraint violations unresolved, reducing planning reliability and wasting inference-time computation. We develop an inference-time monitor that exposes and verifies intermediate plans without disrupting the original decoding trajectory. Building on this monitor, we propose SafeInferCom, a formal verifier-guided framework that preserves valid intermediate plans and directs error correction during generation. Experiments across multiple LRLMs and planning domains reveal reasoning-response inconsistency and limited self-correction under one-shot inference. SafeInferCom improves planning success and accelerates error correction relative to one-shot inference. When combined with iterative refinement, it further improves success while reducing token usage compared with refinement alone. We additionally evaluate SafeInferCom in VirtualHome and provide a real-world robotic-arm demonstration.
[NLP-96] he Lattice of Transition Laws
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成模型中解码策略设计的通用性与可预测性问题，特别是针对自回归（Autoregressive, AR）模型与扩散模型在不同数据域（离散标记与连续空间）中解码步数的最优选择难题。其核心挑战在于：如何在不进行实际解码的前提下，预判不同解码调度（decoding schedule）在固定步数下的性能优劣。论文的关键创新在于将扩散模型、AR模型及二者之间的混合模型统一建模为一个“污染网格（corruption lattice）”上的路径，提出以“并行步骤间所丢弃依赖关系的代价（cost）”作为衡量解码调度性能的核心指标。研究发现，零代价解码调度所需的最少步数由数据本身的几何结构决定——对于图上马尔可夫且沿路径存在依赖的数据，该最小步数等于图的树深度（treedepth），其在序列长度上呈对数级，在网格边长上呈线性级。当解码步数少于树深度时，所有调度均需支付正代价，而该代价的相对排序可通过基于预训练权重估计的成对依赖核函数预先预测。实验在文本、图像和视频生成任务中验证了该预测框架对多种评估指标与基准的有效性，从而为未来AR模型、扩散模型及中间形态模型的解码策略设计提供了可量化的理论指导原则。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11216
作者: T. Y. Tsui,Jiatao Gu,Lingjie Liu
机构: University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Diffusion and autoregression (AR) have long been seen as different categories of generative models, with diffusion specialising in continuous fields and AR specialising in discrete tokens. Recent work seeks to combine the advantages of the two models, and each hybrid fixes its decoding schedule by design. In this paper, we ask whether the performance of decoding schedules of one model can be predicted before decoding at a fixed number of steps. We describe diffusion, AR, and models in between as paths on one corruption lattice, and define the cost of a schedule as the dependence its parallel steps discard. The cost shows that the fewest steps of a zero-cost schedule are set by the geometry of the data, in the same way for tokens and for continuous fields. In particular, for data that are Markov on a graph and dependent along its paths, the fewest steps equal the graph’s treedepth, which is logarithmic in the length of a sequence and linear in the side length of a grid. With fewer steps than the treedepth, every schedule pays a positive cost, whose ranking we predict before decoding with a kernel of pairwise dependence estimated from pretrained weights. Across text generation, image generation, and video generation, we verify most of the predictions about the rankings of different schedules under different metrics and benchmarks. This work therefore provides a design principle for decoding for future AR models, diffusion models, and anything in between. Our code is available at this https URL.
[NLP-97] Bridging KV-Cache Quantization and Linear Attention: From Theory to Pretrained Weight Migration
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决Transformer模型中注意力机制带来的存储与计算成本过高问题，具体针对两种主流优化方法——键值缓存量化（KV-cache quantization）与线性注意力（linear attention）的局限性进行融合。前者通过将每个键值（KV）条目离散化压缩以降低存储开销，但保留全部历史条目；后者则通过递归聚合多历史KV贡献至固定大小的连续状态来减少计算复杂度，但可能引入干扰。为弥合这两种范式在“单个条目压缩”与“多条目聚合”之间的矛盾，本文提出RAM-Net作为统一框架，其核心在于基于离散地址空间的软分配机制。该机制通过软分配决定对连续槽状态（slot state）的递归更新，在受限的架构设计下，证明了软地址分配可扩展硬量化匹配至可分离的读写重叠结构，从而局部近似完整注意力相似性并支持递归聚合。这一理论连接进一步实现了从Transformer到RAM-Net的权重迁移路径，依赖于一种基于软量化中间表示的新构造方式。在9个参数规模从0.3B到7B的预训练Transformer模型上，仅使用每模型500M token的预算，RAM-Net即可平均恢复教师模型在6个常识与知识任务上相对于随机猜测所获得准确率的87.1%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11214
作者: Kaicheng Xiao,Liran Dong,Haotian Li,Guoliang Xing
机构: The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:KV-cache quantization and linear attention are two representative approaches to tackling the storage and computational costs of Transformers. KV-cache quantization compresses individual KV entries into discrete codes but retains all entries, whereas linear attention recurrently aggregates multiple historical KV contributions into a fixed-size continuous state but can introduce interference. This contrast raises the question of whether per-KV compression and multi-KV aggregation can be bridged within a single mechanism for efficient attention. We identify RAM-Net as such a bridge through soft assignments over a discrete address space. These assignments determine recurrent updates to the continuous slot state associated with each address. Under a restricted RAM-Net construction, we prove that soft address assignments extend hard quantized matching to a separable read-write overlap that locally approximates full-attention similarity and supports recurrent aggregation. These connections further enable Transformer-to-RAM-Net weight migration through a new path based on a soft-quantized intermediate construction. Across nine pretrained Transformer models from 0.3B to 7B parameters, RAM-Net recovers an average of 87.1% of the teachers’ accuracy gains over random guessing across six commonsense and knowledge tasks using only a 500M-token budget per model.
[NLP-98] Selective Listening: Mechanism-Guided Control of Audio Influence in Large Audio-Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大音频-语言模型（Large Audio-Language Models, LALMs）在无需听觉输入的任务中，因无关音频信息干扰而导致文本推理决策偏差的问题。其核心挑战在于，传统评估指标如整体准确率（Aggregate Accuracy）可能掩盖“成对漂移”（Paired Drift）现象——即音频引起的错误与修复相互抵消，导致性能指标失真。为此，论文提出关键解决方案：识别并干预特定于模型架构、对干预敏感的晚期音频路径（late audio pathways），将其作为可操作的控制点。为此，作者提出ICAP-Gate机制，通过基于机制引导、任务条件化的门控策略，对每个模型路径施加选择性调控。实验表明，在四种LALMs、两个推理基准及环境音与自然语音干扰场景下，ICAP-Gate在所有16组全分割模型-条件评估中均显著降低影响率（Influence Rate）和答案翻转率（Answer Flip）；相较于固定抑制策略，其在不损害自动语音识别（ASR）性能的前提下，保留了对显式音频需求指令的处理能力；同时，其在对抗成对漂移方面的表现优于缓解提示法（mitigation prompting），且在仅需单次生成的情况下，稳定性媲美八样本自一致性（Self-Consistency），但将推理延迟降低了7.0至9.2倍。研究结果确立了选择性模态影响控制作为实现鲁棒多模态推理的关键设计原则。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11196
作者: Yulin Sun,Kele Xu,Yong Dou
机构: National University of Defense Technology (国防科技大学); State Key Laboratory of Complex Critical Software Environment (复杂关键软件环境国家重点实验室)
类目: ound (cs.SD); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 24 pages, 5 figures, 20 tables
Abstract:Large audio-language models (LALMs) exploit multimodal evidence, yet task-irrelevant audio can alter text-reasoning decisions when listening is unnecessary. Aggregate Accuracy can hide this paired drift because audio-induced repairs and damages may cancel. Paired drift analysis and targeted interventions identify architecture-specific, intervention-sensitive late audio pathways as actionable control points. We introduce ICAP-Gate, which applies mechanism-guided, task-conditioned control to each model’s pathway. Across four LALMs, two reasoning benchmarks, and environmental-sound and natural-speech interference, ICAP-Gate has lower point estimates for Influence Rate and Answer Flip than ungated inference in all 16 full-split model–condition evaluations. Fixed suppression degrades automatic speech recognition (ASR) across all four models, whereas ICAP-Gate matches ungated ASR performance by preserving the pathway for explicit audio-demand instructions. ICAP-Gate has lower paired-drift point estimates than mitigation prompting in all four evaluated settings and provides competitive stabilization relative to eight-sample Self-Consistency while using one generation per query; in controlled ARC measurements, Self-Consistency incurs 7.0 – 9.2\times ungated latency. These results establish selective modality influence control as a design principle for robust multimodal reasoning.
[NLP-99] RAG -Stress: Probing the Limits of Evidence Reliance in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）系统中一个关键问题：即使检索到的证据存在误导性，模型仍可能错误地替换原本正确的答案，而传统准确率指标无法有效揭示此类“答案替换”行为，因其将答案替换与原有错误混杂计算。为精准诊断模型对检索证据的依赖边界，论文提出RAG-Stress这一受控诊断协议，通过固定问题和参考答案，修改一条证据以支持指定错误答案，并交叉测试两种文档优先级策略与三种答案片段在证据文本中的位置。研究测量了在未使用检索时正确回答的问题子集上的误导率（Misleading Rate, MR），同时评估全集上的纯净准确率。实验覆盖15个系统（包括API模型、开源模型及基于强化学习训练的搜索代理），涵盖TriviaQA-RC、HotpotQA、SearchQA及中英文MedQA数据集。结果表明，强制优先使用文档的指令导致显著更高的误导率（相较于允许依赖先验知识的策略，平均差距为10.9至13.5个百分点），且无论何种策略下，误导率呈现“末尾 > 开头 > 中间”的趋势，但个体模型表现不一致。对500个问题的成对审计进一步显示，模型更易被误导而替换正确答案，但并未伴随有益修正的相应提升。研究揭示了“证据遵循性”与“事实可靠性”之间的本质差异，强调需评估检索证据是否真正起到保持、替换或纠正模型答案的作用，从而推动对RAG系统可信性的深入评估。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11183
作者: Shunyuan Zhou,Hao Chen,Tianyu Wang,Goose Lin,Zaiyuan Wang,Haiying Zhao
机构: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学); Beijing Key Laboratory of Key Technologies for AI+ Domain Applications(北京市人工智能+领域应用关键技术重点实验室); Humanlaya Data; North China University of Technology(华北理工大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Following retrieved evidence does not guarantee factual correctness: misleading evidence can induce a model to replace an answer it previously gave correctly. Standard accuracy measures obscure this behavior by combining answer replacement with preexisting errors. We introduce RAG-Stress, a controlled diagnostic protocol for examining the limits of evidence reliance in retrieval-augmented generation. The protocol holds the question and reference answer fixed, edits one assertion to support a designated incorrect answer, and crosses two source priority policies with three positions of the answer span within the evidence text. We measure misleading rate (MR) on each model’s subset of questions answered correctly without retrieval, alongside clean accuracy on the full evaluation set. We evaluate fifteen systems spanning API models, open models, and search agents trained with reinforcement learning on TriviaQA-RC, HotpotQA, and SearchQA, with additional English and Chinese MedQA evaluations. Instructions that prioritize documents consistently produce higher MR than those permitting reliance on prior knowledge. Averaged over models and positions, the gap ranges from 10.9 to 13.5 percentage points across the three QA datasets. Mean MR follows End Beginning Middle under both policies, although individual models do not uniformly follow this ordering. A separate paired audit of 500 questions and two checkpoints supports increased harmful override without establishing a corresponding improvement in beneficial correction. These findings distinguish evidence adherence from factual reliability and motivate evaluating whether retrieved evidence preserves, replaces, or corrects a model’s answers.
[NLP-100] LadderEdit: Edit-Level Residual Compression for Memory-Efficient Lifelong Editing of LLM s EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在持续学习场景下因累积大量编辑操作而导致的存储开销急剧增长问题。现有方法通常为每次编辑分配一个独立的低秩自适应（LoRA）适配器，虽能有效保留模型行为，但存储成本随编辑数量线性增加。其解决方案的关键在于提出LadderEdit方法，通过动态压缩每个已获取的LoRA适配器实现存储优化：初始时将每项编辑以低秩形式作为轻量级“草图”（sketch）存储，并在探测提示（probe prompts）上验证该草图是否满足重写（rewrite）、泛化（generalization）与局部性（locality）约束条件；若通过则保留低秩草图，否则沿“梯度阶梯”逐步提升至更高秩直至满足约束。该机制确保所有编辑均保有可表示的形态，从而维持覆盖能力，仅对复杂编辑消耗额外秩资源。在LLaMA-3-8B、Mistral-7B和Qwen2.5-7B模型上，基于ZsRE、CounterFact和WikiBigEdit基准的实验表明，LadderEdit在保持与精确LoRA相当性能的前提下，将存储需求降低至5.2倍，且在连续5万次编辑中仍保持有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11160
作者: Xiaobing Yu,Peijie Qiu,Jin Yang,Xuanzhao Dong,Weiwei Ma,Zhaoqi An,Xiaoqi Zhao,Xiaofeng Liu
机构: Yale University (耶鲁大学); Washington University in St. Louis (圣路易斯华盛顿大学); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (西奈山医学院); Arizona State University (亚利桑那州立大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM)
备注: EMNLP 2026 Main Conference Long Paper
Abstract:Lifelong editing of LLMs requires storing thousands of edits after acquisition. A widely used family of approaches attaches one LoRA adapter per edit, which preserves behavior but grows linearly in storage. To address this challenge, we propose LadderEdit, a method that compresses each LoRA adapter after it is acquired. Each edit is first stored at low rank as a cheap sketch. We then check whether this sketch still satisfies the rewrite, generalization, and locality contract on probe prompts. Edits that pass keep the sketch; those that fail are promoted to a higher rank along a ladder until the contract is met. Because every edit retains some representation, coverage is maintained, and only hard edits consume more rank. Across ZsRE, CounterFact, and WikiBigEdit benchmarks on LLaMA-3-8B, Mistral-7B, and Qwen2.5-7B, LadderEdit tracks exact LoRA storage at 5.2x less memory and remains effective at 50,000 sequential edits.
[NLP-101] Local Prototype Reconstruction for Text-Compatible Speech-to-LLM Bridge Pretraining
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决语音到大语言模型（Speech-to-LLM）系统中，连接冻结语音编码器与冻结大语言模型（LLM）的可训练桥接模块（bridge）在下游任务迁移能力不足的问题。尽管该桥接模块通常被视为“管道式”组件，但其实际定义了语音与文本语义空间之间的接口几何结构，而预训练目标则直接影响该接口是否具备可复用性。论文的关键在于提出并验证两个互补的可迁移性属性：全局对齐性（global alignment）与局部词汇流形兼容性（local lexical manifold compatibility），即桥接嵌入应保持在冻结LLM输入嵌入邻域内。为实现可量化评估，研究设计了一种无需头部（head-free）、不依赖时间戳（timestamp-free）的固定诊断方法，适用于任意预训练目标。实验表明，传统的下一词预测（NWP）和句子级对比学习未能充分捕捉词级别词汇兼容性。为此，论文提出轻量级仅训练正则化方法——局部原型重构（Local Prototype Reconstruction, LPR），要求每个对齐后的桥接标记能从冻结LLM标记嵌入的局部邻域中重构，其极限情况为硬单原型锚点。在多语言自动语音识别（ASR）与语音翻译任务中，LPR显著提升了迁移性能，尤其在翻译任务及低资源场景下收益最大。关键发现是，独立诊断指标与下游任务增益高度相关，表明局部词汇流形兼容性是预测语音到大语言模型桥接模块可复用性的有效指标。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11159
作者: Xinnian Zhao,Chia-Hua Wu,Pu Wang,Hugo Van Hamme
机构: KU Leuven (鲁汶大学); Academia Sinica (中央研究院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Sound (cs.SD)
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Abstract:Speech-to-LLM systems often connect a frozen speech encoder to a frozen large language model (LLM) through a small trainable bridge. The bridge is usually treated as plumbing, but it in fact defines the geometry of the speech-to-LLM interface, and the pretraining objective decides whether that interface provides a reusable initialization for downstream tasks. We study a transferable bridge through two complementary properties: global alignment with the text side, and local lexical manifold compatibility, where bridge embeddings remain close to the frozen LLM’s input-embedding neighbourhoods. We make this property measurable with a fixed, head-free, timestamp-free diagnostic that applies to any objective, and show that next-word prediction (NWP) and sentence-level contrastive pretraining do not fully capture token-level lexical compatibility. We then introduce Local Prototype Reconstruction (LPR), a lightweight training-only regularizer that requires each aligned bridge token to be reconstructable from a small neighbourhood of frozen LLM token embeddings, with a hard single-prototype anchor as its limiting case. On multilingual ASR and speech translation, LPR improves transfer, with the largest gains on translation and low-resource adaptation. Crucially, our independent diagnostic correlates with downstream gains across objectives, suggesting that lexical manifold compatibility is predictive of reusability for speech-to-LLM bridges.
[NLP-102] Do LLM s Learn from Rewards in Context? : Rethinking the role of reward in In-Context Reinforcement Learning NEURIPS2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在探究在上下文学习（In-Context Learning, ICL）框架下，生成式AI模型是否能够通过奖励信号实现类似强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）的推理时学习（In-Context Reinforcement Learning, ICRL）效果。其核心问题是：在直接的ICRL设置中，即模型直接依赖原始轨迹-奖励对进行条件推理时，奖励是否真正充当有效的学习信号。研究发现，尽管模型能够读取奖励信息，但其实际影响微弱——无论翻转、随机化或移除奖励，模型的性能提升曲线几乎不变；即使在显式引导模型探索、利用或推理奖励的元提示（meta-prompt）条件下，这一现象依然成立。进一步分析表明，模型性能的提升主要由轨迹本身驱动，而非其语义内容：打乱或损坏的轨迹与真实轨迹具有相似的促进效果。这些结果与经典ICL现象高度一致，暗示直接ICRL更应被理解为ICL的一种特殊形式，而非真正的推理时强化学习。该结论的关键启示在于：在智能体记忆设计中，输入分布和示范样本等ICL相关因素的重要性可能超过传统强化学习中的奖励塑形与探索策略。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11152
作者: Minchan Kwon,Seunghee Koh,Sunghyun Baek,Minsung Bae,Junmo Kim
机构: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: NeurIPS 2026 Spotlight (Negative Results Track)
Abstract:LLM agents increasingly improve at inference time by accumulating experience in context rather than by updating parameters. This process is often described as in-context reinforcement learning (ICRL). Whether in-context learning (ICL) can actually play the role of RL, however, has not been tested. We study this question in its simplest form, direct ICRL, where the model conditions directly on raw trajectory-reward pairs, and ask whether the reward acts as a learning signal. Through controlled experiments on four benchmarks across six models, we find that the reward is read, but its effect is small: flipping, randomizing, or removing the reward leaves the improvement curve almost unchanged, and this holds even under meta-prompts that explicitly instruct the model to explore, exploit, or reason over rewards. Trajectories drive improvement, but not through their semantic content: shuffled or corrupted trajectories work as well as real ones. These patterns closely mirror those known in ICL, suggesting that direct ICRL is better understood as a special case of ICL than as inference-time RL. This reframing has implications for agent memory design: ICL factors such as input distribution and demonstrations may matter more than RL elements such as reward shaping and exploration.
[NLP-103] ActiveMedAgent : Cost-Aware Trajectory Learning for Multimodal Medical Diagnosis EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多模态医学人工智能中诊断过程的高成本与低效问题，核心挑战在于如何在保证诊断准确性的前提下，实现对检测资源的高效、成本敏感的序列化使用。传统方法往往盲目获取全部模态数据，导致资源浪费且易引发信息过载。其解决方案的关键在于提出ActiveMedAgent框架，该框架基于一个冻结的、可通过API调用的视觉-语言模型，通过追踪候选诊断的概率分布，并以“每步诊断效用减去成本”为标准评估每一项数据采集动作的收益。随后，采用轻量级多层感知机（MLP）控制器，在离线阶段对带有评分的决策轨迹进行策略学习，从而掌握何时请求额外证据、何时做出诊断决策。实验表明，该基于轨迹的策略学习方法在三个基准测试中均优于无引导采集和全模态基线模型；更关键的是，研究发现存在“信息过载效应”——在175例病例中，该代理仅使用较少模态即可正确诊断，而全模态基线却失败，揭示了“学会舍弃”与“学会获取”同样重要，凸显了成本感知序列决策在医学AI中的核心价值。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11140
作者: Weiwei Ma,Xiaobing Yu,Peijie Qiu,Jin Yang,Zhaoqi An,Xuanzhao Dong,Xiaoqi Zhao,Xiaofeng Liu
机构: Washington University in St. Louis; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Arizona State University; Yale University
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Multimedia (cs.MM)
备注: EMNLP 2026
Abstract:Clinical diagnosis is inherently sequential: clinicians escalate from cheap to costly tests only when additional evidence is expected to resolve diagnostic uncertainty. We present ActiveMedAgent, a framework that brings this cost-aware sequential logic to multimodal medical AI. Given a frozen, API-accessed vision-language model, ActiveMedAgent tracks probability distributions over candidate diagnoses and scores each acquisition by its per-step diagnostic utility minus cost. A lightweight MLP controller is then trained offline on these scored trajectories, learning when to request additional evidence and when to commit. Across three commonly used benchmarks, trajectory-based policy learning consistently outperforms both unguided acquisition and full-modality baselines. Notably, we identify an information overload effect. In 175 cases, the agent produces a correct diagnosis with fewer channels while the full-modality baseline fails, showing that learning what to omit can be as important as learning what to acquire.
[NLP-104] he “10th Juror”: Open-Set Standpoint Screening for Bureaucratic Bias Detection EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决政府文档中隐性偏见的闭环治理问题，核心挑战在于如何在不引入新偏见的前提下，准确识别、合理解释并有效修正具有潜在危害的表述。现有方法面临三大局限：（i）判别式分类器仅捕捉表层语言模式而缺乏规范性依据；（ii）零样本大语言模型（LLM）常采用通用立场，过度标记模糊的行政语句；（iii）固定分类体系受限于封闭世界假设，难以发现新兴的地方性歧视目标。其解决方案的关键在于提出MARS-Gov——一种立场感知的多智能体框架，通过法律文本检索、开放集目标筛查、专业化裁判代理、保守路由机制与重写验证等模块协同工作，实现动态可扩展的偏见治理。当筛查发现未覆盖群体时，系统会即时生成一个“第10位裁判员”以超越预设面板进行外部审议，从而突破传统分类体系的边界限制。在DGDB数据集上，MARS-Gov达到0.880的F1分数，显著优于最强零样本LLM检测器20.2点（相对提升29.8%）和最佳监督型荷兰编码器6.8点，同时将不必要的干预率控制在2.5%以下；在留一类别排除（LOCO）评估中，对被隐藏类别的恢复能力达Correct@1 85.1%、Correct@3 93.8%，充分体现了其在开放环境下的泛化与适应能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11136
作者: Yuchen Miao,Zijun Wang,Chang Han,Yurui Shi,Mingtai Zhang,Siyang Xu
机构: Sydney Smart Technology College, Northeastern University, China; Taiyuan University of Technology; School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University; School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, China
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 19 pages, 6 figures. Accepted at EMNLP 2026
Abstract:Presupposing the boundaries of bias is itself a form of bias. We study closed-loop bias governance for Dutch government documents, where a system must detect biased language, ground decisions in legal and contextual evidence, rewrite problematic sentences when intervention is warranted, and verify that the rewrite mitigates harm without distorting meaning. Existing methods face three challenges: (i) discriminative classifiers capture surface regularities but lack normative grounding; (ii) zero-shot LLMs often adopt generic viewpoints and over-flag ambiguous administrative language; and (iii) fixed taxonomies inherit the Closed-World Assumption, missing emerging local targets. We propose MARS-Gov, a standpoint-aware multi-agent framework that combines legal retrieval, open-set target screening, specialized jurors, conservative routing, and rewrite verification. When screening finds an uncovered group, MARS-Gov instantiates a dynamic “10th juror” to deliberate outside the fixed panel. On DGDB, MARS-Gov sets a new SOTA with 0.880 F1, outperforming the strongest zero-shot LLM detector by 20.2 points (29.8% relative) and the best supervised Dutch encoder by 6.8 points, while reducing unnecessary interventions to 2.5%. Leave-One-Category-Out (LOCO) evaluation recovers held-out categories with 85.1% Correct@1 and 93.8% Correct@3.
[NLP-105] Can a System-One LLM Perform Knowledge Tracing When Few or No Learners Are Logged?
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式人工智能（Generative AI）在知识追踪（Knowledge Tracing, KT）任务中面临的新课程或新平台缺乏足够用户日志数据时，难以构建有效模型的问题。传统基于大语言模型（LLM）的KT方法（称为System-Two）依赖微调或多次采样推理，存在计算成本高、响应慢且概率估计粗糙的缺陷。为此，本文提出一种无需目标平台数据的轻量级方案——Jev，即直接使用现成的System-One LLM，在单次前向传播中对类型化问题输出概率预测。实验表明，仅使用Jev模型在七个数据集上的平均AUC达到0.706，优于28种深度学习型KT模型在仅8名学习者数据下的最佳表现（0.689），并显著超越System-Two Thinking-KT（0.650），同时仅需其约1/100的API成本。进一步引入少量示例与相似学习者统计信息后，所提出的JevKT模型性能提升至0.722，并在最多64名学习者时持续领先于深度学习型KT模型，仅在128名学习者以上时被监督学习型模型追平。消融实验表明该优势并非由输入格式或记忆数据所致，而是源于Jev模型本身的特性，且该优势从新学习者的首次交互起即显现。因此，该研究的关键突破在于：利用无需训练的预设型系统一（System-One）LLM，结合少量上下文信息，实现了在极低数据需求下高效、低成本且性能优越的知识追踪能力，为新平台快速部署智能教学系统提供了可行路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11135
作者: Unggi Lee,Haeun Park
机构: Korea University Sejong Campus (韩国大学世宗校区); Korea University (韩国大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Knowledge tracing (KT) models need many logged learners, so a new course or platform starts without a usable model. In LLM-based KT the LLM generates the answer, which we call System-Two; it is either fine-tuned on the target data or reasons and votes over ten samples, which is slow and gives coarse probabilities. We ask whether an off-the-shelf System-One LLM, which returns a probability for a typed question directly in a single pass, can perform KT when few or no learners are logged. On seven datasets, Jev without any data from the target platform reaches a mean AUC of .706, above the best of 28 deep KT models trained on 8 learners (.689) and above System-Two Thinking-KT on all seven datasets (.650) at about 1/100 of its API cost. Adding examples and a similar-learner statistic from the logged learners (JevKT) raises this to .722; JevKT stays significantly ahead of deep KT up to 16 learners and ahead on average up to 64, and supervised KT catches up between 64 and 128 learners. Among the readers we tested, the gain is specific to Jev, since three other LLMs queried with the byte-identical typed request through the official System-One adapter fall below it on all seven datasets, and reader swaps and contamination checks find no evidence that the input format or memorised data explain the gain. For new learners the advantage holds from their first interactions, whereas on unseen items with all learners logged, deep KT remains ahead.
[NLP-106] SFT-as-Context Mitigates Forgetting in Supervised Fine-Tuning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在监督微调（Supervised Fine-Tuning, SFT）过程中出现的“能力遗忘”问题，即在获得特定任务专长的同时，损失了预训练模型原有的通用能力。这一权衡尤其限制了同时需要专业化与通用化能力的复杂查询的处理效果。其核心解决方案为“SFT-as-context”，一种无需额外训练的方法：将经过微调的子模型（SFT模型）对输入的响应作为上下文，提供给原始父模型（parent model），使父模型通过提示学习（in-context learning）方式吸收微调后的专业能力，同时保留自身原有的通用能力。实验结果表明，在19组父模型-微调模型对和11个基准测试中，该方法在细调能力上与SFT模型差距极小（如AIME 2024仅差2.2个百分点），且在通用能力上平均仅落后于父模型2.2个百分点，显著优于传统微调或直接使用任一模型的策略。更关键的是，该方法可有效解决需同时具备细调与通用能力的复合型任务，即使单个模型无法完成。此外，研究基于贝叶斯框架建立了理论误差边界，证明了其性能的可靠性；注意力可视化分析进一步揭示父模型能选择性关注有用信息，从而提升上下文利用效率。该方法不仅适用于父-微调模型对，还可跨模型迁移——例如，开源小规模SFT模型的输出即可增强闭源强模型的表现，超越单一模型性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11132
作者: Kenan Tang,Andong Hua,Chengxuan Qian,Saket Tiwari,Yao Qin
机构: University of California, Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) equips large language models (LLMs) with specialized capabilities, but often comes at the cost of forgetting the general capabilities of their parent models (i.e., the pretrained models before fine-tuning). This trade-off is especially limiting for queries that require both specialized and general capabilities. We introduce SFT-as-context, a training-free method in which the parent model uses the SFT model’s response as context to answer the query. This allows the parent model to acquire fine-tuned capabilities from the SFT response through in-context learning while preserving its own general capabilities. Across 19 parent-SFT model pairs and 11 benchmarks, SFT-as-context remains close to the SFT models on fine-tuned capabilities, with gaps of only 2.2 and 2.1 percentage points on AIME 2024 and LiveCodeBench and 2.0 macro MAE on NutriBench-English, while staying within 2.2 percentage points of the parent models on general capabilities on average. Remarkably, it can solve queries requiring both fine-tuned and general capabilities, even when neither the parent nor SFT model succeeds alone. This approach also extends beyond parent-SFT pairs: responses from a small open-source SFT model can improve a strong closed-source LLM, outperforming either model alone. Furthermore, we use a Bayesian framework to derive theoretical guarantees that bound the error of SFT-as-context relative to the SFT model on fine-tuned capabilities and to the parent model on general capabilities. In addition, we visualize the attention weights and find that the parent model attends more to useful SFT responses and less to irrelevant ones, suggesting that selective attention helps the parent model use the SFT response through in-context learning.
[NLP-107] GameCommBench: A Unified Benchmark and Type-Aware Evaluation for AI-Generated Game Commentary
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决现有生成式游戏解说（AI-Generated Game Commentary, AI-GGC）研究中存在的碎片化问题，包括跨游戏类型、多模态输入与评估协议不一致，以及现有评价方法无法有效捕捉解说功能异质性（functional heterogeneity）的局限。其核心解决方案是提出一个统一的基准测试框架——GameCommBench，涵盖棋类、体育赛事和电子竞技三类场景，包含与多样化游戏情境对齐的解说数据，并基于解说类型进行标注；同时设计了类型感知的解说评价框架（Type-Aware Commentary Evaluation, TACE），通过结构化评估不同类型的解说内容，提升评价的可靠性与人类评价者间的一致性。实验结果表明，当前AI解说系统在实时观察能力和战略分析能力方面存在显著短板，呈现出非均匀的能力分布。整体而言，GameCommBench与TACE共同构建了一个可比较、可解释的AI-GGC评估诊断基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11129
作者: Qirui Zheng,Zhengteng Lin,Yunyi Xiao,Junhao Li,Keyuan Cheng,Xingbo Wang,Yongyi Wang,Lingfeng Li,Yunlong Lu,Wenxin Li
机构: Peking University (北京大学); South China University of Technology (华南理工大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Game commentary is an open-ended generation task requiring multimodal perception, strategic reasoning, and contextual knowledge. Existing AI-Generated Game Commentary (AI-GGC) studies remain fragmented across games, modalities, and evaluation protocols, while overlap-based or holistic evaluators fail to capture the functional heterogeneity of commentary. We introduce \textscGameCommBench, a unified benchmark spanning board games, sports, and esports, with commentary aligned to heterogeneous game contexts and annotated by commentary type. We further propose Type-Aware Commentary Evaluation (TACE), a structured framework for evaluating different types of commentary. We then validate TACE for reliability and human agreement, and use it to benchmark representative AI commentators. Results reveal non-uniform capability profiles, with live observation and strategic analysis emerging as major bottlenecks. Together, \textscGameCommBench and TACE provide a diagnostic foundation for comparable and interpretable AI-GGC evaluation.
[NLP-108] Lapras: Latent Reasoning for Time Series Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决时间序列语言模型（Time Series Language Models, TSLMs）在推理过程中生成不准确或不忠实于输入时间序列信号的解释性文本的问题。现有方法如链式思维（Chain-of-Thought, CoT）虽能通过逐步生成自然语言推理步骤来提升可解释性，但其将高维连续时间表示映射为离散语言符号的过程易导致关键模式丢失或误述，进而引发早期错误传播，最终产生看似合理却与原始信号不符的错误答案。本文提出Lapras（Latent Post-trained Reasoning Across Series）框架，其核心在于引入隐式连续思维（continuous thoughts）机制，在联合的时间序列-语言嵌入空间中进行隐式推理，仅在最终输出阶段生成自然语言答案，从而避免中间步骤的语言离散化带来的信息损失。该方法通过教师-学生自蒸馏训练实现：教师模型基于参考CoT轨迹显式地进行文本推理，而学生模型则通过在答案阶段对齐教师的隐藏状态，将教师的深层推理能力迁移至自身的隐式计算中。实验表明，Lapras在五个时间序列问答基准上显著优于显式CoT方法，平均F1提升达10.79%，同时生成文本量减少23.9倍；此外，其隐式思维可通过标准语言解码生成可读的推理轨迹，兼顾高效性、有效性与可解释性，展现出一种新型高效的后训练推理范式。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11111
作者: Yuliang Chen,Yu Yvonne Wu,Patrick Langer,Arvind Pillai,Sudarshan Regmi,Martin Maritsch,Juncheng Liu,Robert Jakob,Thomas Kaar,Tess Z. Griffin,Lisa Marsch,Michael V. Heinz,Nicholas C. Jacobson,Andrew Campbell
机构: Dartmouth College(达特茅斯学院); Aionic Labs; Agentic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich(以利希联邦理工学院智能系统实验室); Stanford University(斯坦福大学); National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Time Series Language Models (TSLMs) offer a promising path toward time series understanding by reasoning over temporal signals and producing natural language answers and explanations. A common approach is Chain-of-Thought (CoT), which generates step-by-step rationales linking relevant signal patterns to final answers. Although these models learn from reference CoT traces during post-training, generating faithful descriptions of input time series at inference remains challenging. Expressing high-dimensional, continuous temporal representations in discrete language tokens may cause the model to neglect task-relevant patterns or describe them inaccurately. Because later reasoning steps build on these descriptions, early errors propagate, leading to incorrect answers with plausible explanations that are inconsistent with the input signal. We propose Lapras (Latent Post-trained Reasoning Across Series), a post-training framework that equips TSLMs with latent reasoning. A model trained with Lapras reasons through a sequence of continuous thoughts in the joint time series-language space, producing text only for the final answer. It learns this through teacher-student self-distillation, where a teacher trained on CoT reference traces reasons explicitly through text. The student aligns its hidden states with the teacher’s at the answer stage, transferring the teacher’s reasoning ability into its latent computation. We evaluate Lapras across four TSLM backbones on five time series question answering benchmarks. Lapras improves average F1 by up to 10.79% over explicit CoT while generating 23.9x fewer tokens. Lapras’s continuous thoughts can also be decoded into readable reasoning traces via standard language decoding, preserving textual explanations. Together, these results highlight Lapras as a promising post-training paradigm for efficient, effective, and interpretable TSLM reasoning.
[NLP-109] Clinician use of language models diverges from how the models are evaluated
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前临床生成式AI（Generative AI）系统评估体系与真实临床应用场景脱节的问题。现有评估基准大多基于考试题或精心设计的案例，其任务分布与真实临床工作中医生、护士等医疗人员实际提出的问题存在显著差异，导致基准分数无法有效预测系统在真实部署环境中的表现。本文通过分析某机构内8个月内6,342名医务人员（涵盖35个专科）提出的127,833条查询，构建并应用RCQ-Map——一个基于临床问题分类体系和生成式AI评估框架的临床医师验证工具，对查询的任务类型、意图、可回答性、信息缺失程度及潜在危害进行了系统刻画。结果显示，真实使用中近三分之二的请求集中于文书处理（36.2%）与知识检索（28.9%），而诊断类请求仅占3.7%，且超过三分之一的查询因信息不全无法被有效解答。进一步将RCQ-Map应用于58个公开基准测试（整合为“临床人工智能评估图谱”，Clinical AI Benchmark Atlas），发现多数基准未包含任何文书类请求，其任务构成仅与真实使用场景共享31%的任务类型，甚至不如随机均匀分布的任务组合。即使专为模拟临床实践设计的评估套件，也未显著优于前沿模型报告中使用的基准。因此，研究指出：当前主流基准得分无法反映生成式AI在实际临床工作中所承担的大部分任务，评估体系亟需向真实临床使用情境对齐。解决方案的关键在于建立以真实临床交互数据为基础、具备多维语义标注能力的评估框架（如RCQ-Map），推动评估范式从“理想化测试”转向“真实工作负载驱动”的实证评估。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11069
作者: Krithik Vishwanath,Haitong Lin,Anton Alyakin,Jin Vivian Lee,D. Brock Hewitt,Jie J. Yao,William Robert Small,Hammad A. Khan,Cordelia Orillac,Aakaash Varma,Brandon Ye,Daniel Alexander Alber,Gustavo Stolovitzky,Batia Wiesenfeld,Oded Nov,Wei Wu,Kang Zhang,Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs,Tim Requarth,Eric Karl Oermann, TheInternational Digital Twin Consortium in Healthcare,Medicine
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language model (LLM) assistants are being deployed to clinicians across health systems, and judgments about their readiness rest largely on benchmark scores, most of them derived from examination questions or curated cases. A benchmark predicts performance in deployment only to the extent that its items resemble real use, yet whether benchmarks reflect the work these systems receive has rarely been measured. Here we analyze 127,833 queries sent by 6,342 physicians, advanced practice providers and nurses in 35 specialties to an institutional assistant during an eight-month roll-out. We characterize each query with RCQ-Map, a clinician-validated framework grounded in taxonomies of clinical questions and of LLM evaluation, which records its task, intent, answerability, missing information and potential harm. Documentation and administration (36.2%) and knowledge retrieval (28.9%) made up nearly two-thirds of use, and diagnosis 3.7%; more than a third of queries could not be answered well as posed. Applying RCQ-Map to 58 public benchmarks drawn from major evaluation suites and frontier model reports, which we assemble into the Clinical AI Benchmark Atlas, showed that the median benchmark contained no documentation requests and shared 31% of the task mix of real use, less than an even spread across task categories would. Benchmarks in suites designed to resemble clinical practice were individually no closer to real use than those used in frontier model reports. Benchmark scores therefore say little about how clinical AI performs on most of the work it is actually given, and evaluation should be matched to real clinical use.
[NLP-110] Measuring and Mitigating Solution Mode Collapse in RLVR
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在基于可验证奖励的强化学习（Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards, RLVR）训练过程中出现的解空间趋同问题，即模型倾向于收敛于少数几个重复的答案模式，尽管其准确率保持甚至提升，但解的多样性显著下降。这一现象限制了模型在实际应用中提供多样化解决方案的能力，进而影响用户选择与整体任务求解效率。其核心解决方案在于引入一种名为 Re:Max 的新训练机制，该机制通过维护一个回放缓冲区（replay buffer），为每个被发现的正确解模式（mode）仅存储一个经验证的示例，并在后续训练中对这些模式进行均匀采样和训练。这种方法确保了即使某个解只被发现一次，也会得到同等频率的练习机会，从而有效促进模型在训练中保留并掌握多种正确的解答路径。实验结果表明，在三种模型规模、两种强化学习目标及更复杂任务设置下，采用回放机制的 Re:Max 显著提升了策略的成功率以及成功解法的多样性，验证了其在增强生成式模型解多样性方面的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11064
作者: Liv G. d’Aliberti,Marwa Abdulhai,Sofiia Druchyna,Peter Henderson,Manoel Horta Ribeiro
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:A language model (LM) can usually answer the same question in more than one way, but reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is indifferent to which correct answer a model produces. A solution will earn the same reward whether it is the thousandth copy of a familiar answer or one the model has never produced before. Yet, there is potential value in having the model retain multiple correct solutions as it is trained. For instance, multiple modes may give users a choice and provide problem-solving strategies that improve overall model performance. Here, we introduce ModeBench, a benchmark of multi-solution tasks in which the verifier returns both correctness and mode discovered. We then use ModeBench to measure how solution diversity changes under RLVR post-training. We find that RLVR post-training concentrates probability onto fewer correct modes even as accuracy holds or improves, and moreover, that frontier models are already highly concentrated. We then introduce our solution, Re:Max, which stores one verified example per discovered mode in a replay buffer and trains on those stored modes uniformly. A solution found once is, therefore, practiced as often as one found repeatedly. Across three model scales, two RL objectives, and harder task constructions, replay improves both how often a policy succeeds and how many different ways it can succeed.
[NLP-111] FedAlphaEdit: Null-Space-Aligned Merging for Collaborative Knowledge Editing
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多机构在无法共享原始编辑请求数据的前提下，如何安全、高效地协同更新大型语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）知识的问题。现有方法中，基于零空间约束（null-space-constrained）的编辑技术（如AlphaEdit）可确保编辑操作不破坏无关知识，而协作框架（如CollabEdit）则可在不共享数据的情况下聚合多方编辑结果。然而，作者发现将二者简单结合会导致结构失效，其根本原因在于本地编辑与服务器端融合规则之间缺乏统一的零空间对齐机制。为此，论文提出FedAlphaEdit，这是首个在局部编辑与服务器端合并规则上均遵循单一零空间原则的协作式知识编辑框架。其核心创新在于采用零空间对齐的合并策略，使客户端仅需共享投影后的统计信息，服务器即可在理想单次更新假设下可证明性地恢复集中式编辑的效果。实验表明，该方法有效缓解了性能退化问题，在两种模型架构上实现了编辑成功率与知识保留率同时接近集中式编辑的水平，为医疗、金融等无法共享原始数据的机构提供了可信赖的联合模型维护方案。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11033
作者: Sota Sugawara,Yukihiko Okada
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Multiple institutions may each hold their own private knowledge edits and wish to integrate them into a single large language model without sharing raw edit requests. Null-space-constrained editing methods such as AlphaEdit mathematically guarantee that each update leaves unrelated knowledge intact, while collaborative frameworks such as CollabEdit aggregate edits from multiple clients without data sharing. Combining the two appears trivial. However, we show that this naive combination fails structurally, and we identify its cause. Guided by this analysis, we propose FedAlphaEdit. To our knowledge, this is the first collaborative knowledge editing framework that aligns both local editing and the server-side merging rule under a single null-space principle for preserving existing knowledge. FedAlphaEdit builds on null-space-aligned merging, in which clients share projected statistics and the server provably recovers the result of editing everything in one place under a one-shot idealization. Empirically, the proposed method repairs the collapse and brings edit success and preservation simultaneously close to the level of centralized editing across two architecture families. FedAlphaEdit thus lets institutions that cannot share raw edit data, such as hospitals and financial firms, jointly maintain a shared model that closely approximates editing all facts in one place.
[NLP-112] Prompts versus Rules: Auditing and Controlling Speech Naturalness Behaviors in Voice User Simulators NEURIPS2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前语音代理（voice agent）评估中用户模拟器（user simulator）所生成的自然语言行为（如不流畅性、打断和回应性话语）与实际配置意图之间存在的偏差问题。现有基于大语言模型（LLM）的提示方法在生成这些自然度行为时表现出不可靠性，导致生成的语音内容与指令不符，且行为分布不够自然；而本文提出的基于规则的、无需模型依赖的注入算法则能更可控、多样地生成符合真实对话特征的自然度行为。研究的关键在于揭示：仅报告配置参数无法反映真实行为表现，必须通过审计实际生成的行为模式才能暴露并量化仿真质量的差距，从而强调采用语言学驱动的确定性方法或专用模型以提升用户模拟的真实性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11015
作者: Riqiang Wang,Elena Khasanova,Harsh Saini,Lex Konnelly,Parsa Kavehzadeh,Matthias Lee,Mohamed Attia
机构: Dialpad Inc.(Dialpad公司)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted to the UserSim @ NeurIPS 2026 workshop (non-archival)
Abstract:As voice agents gain more popularity commercially, the user simulators used to evaluate the deployed agents are also being developed to include more realistic, variable, and diverse speech naturalness behaviors – disfluency, interruption and backchanneling. The quality of the user simulator directly affects the validity of agent evaluation results. However, we find that most studies so far have not examined in detail whether the intended configuration for these behaviors is realized in the simulation. In this study, we audit the realized naturalness behaviors of tau-Voice, our own LLM-based prompting approach across three models, and our rule-based injection algorithm for disfluency, interruption, and backchanneling. We find that prompting for these behaviors is unreliable and produces speech inconsistent with the instructions, placed and distributed less naturally than the instruction implies. In contrast, our rule-based, model-free algorithm produces controllable and diverse naturalness behaviors more aligned with natural speech. Our results suggest that LLMs not purpose-trained for user simulation are not sufficient on their own to represent authentic user behavior, and that linguistically informed deterministic approaches or specialized models are needed to close the gap; auditing and reporting realized naturalness behaviors, rather than configured settings, is what makes that gap visible.
[NLP-113] Back in Style: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Authoring and Measuring Persona Fidelity in User Simulation NEURIPS2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前用户模拟器在评估代理系统（agentic systems）时存在的真实性不足问题，尤其是模拟用户与真实人类用户之间的行为和语言风格差异较大，且现有评估方法依赖于成本高昂且主观性强的大语言模型（LLM）评判。其解决方案的关键在于采用社会语言学（sociolinguistic）视角重构用户角色（persona），将角色视为由可观察的语言风格特征所构成的社会类型，而非基于标签或描述进行行为推断的抽象概念。通过将用户角色定义为具体的语言风格特征（stylistic profiles），研究者能够引入两种无需依赖模型的成熟分析工具——作者身份验证型风格分析（authorship-verification stylometry）和基于词典的内容分析（lexicon-based content analysis），作为客观、可重复的仿真保真度诊断指标。在五种面向客户服务任务的代理系统上进行A/B测试的结果表明，相较于传统的扁平化描述基线，该社会语言学框架显著提升了模型在语言风格一致性（stylistic adherence）和风格可区分性（stylometric distinguishability）方面的表现；但同时也指出，语言风格保真度并不等同于角色“自然性”（naturalness）。研究认为，这一方法为构建更具多样性与代表性的用户角色提供了可行路径，并强调这些指标在错误归因分析中的价值，有助于定位仿真失效的具体环节，是迈向更忠实反映多元语言输出的用户模拟系统的重要一步。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10988
作者: Lex Konnelly,Elena Khasanova,Riqiang Wang,Matthias Lee,Harsh Saini,Parsa Kavehzadeh
机构: Dialpad Inc.(Dialpad公司)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted to the UserSim @ NeurIPS 2026 workshop (non-archival)
Abstract:As agentic systems gain commercial popularity, user simulators increasingly serve as measurement instrument for their evaluation. However, the fidelity of simulated users in comparison to real human users is generally low, and typically assessed by costly, subjective LLM judges. In this pilot study, we ask whether fidelity can instead be measured deterministically by treating a user persona sociolinguistically: as a social type that emerges from observable linguistic style, rather than one predicted by labels or descriptions a model must extrapolate into behaviour. We author personas as concrete stylistic rates, which lets us transfer two established, model-free instruments – authorship-verification stylometry and lexicon-based content analysis – as fidelity diagnostics. We A/B-test the sociolinguistic schema against a flat descriptive baseline across five task-oriented customer-service agents. Results show that the sociolinguistic schema improves both stylistic adherence and stylometric distinguishability for most of the tested models, with a caveat that persona style fidelity does not necessarily equal persona “naturalness”. We argue that a sociolinguistic approach to persona design is a promising path towards more diverse and representative user personas, and that these metrics are most valuable in an error-attribution analysis, localizing where fidelity breaks down. This is a first step towards interventions that move user simulations closer to faithful renderings of diverse and variable linguistic outputs.
[NLP-114] When Citations Mislead? A Claim-Level Benchmark for Legal Hallucination Detection
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在法律领域应用中存在“幻觉”问题，即模型生成的法律主张虽看似合理，但缺乏原始判例或权威文献的支持。其核心挑战在于如何有效验证法律主张是否真正由所引用的法律文书支撑。解决方案的关键在于提出 PARCEL 基准（PARCEL benchmark），构建了一个包含 3,396 条括号式法律主张的数据集，这些主张基于纽约州上诉法院的最新判决，并被标注为“支持”（Supported）、“反驳”（Refuted）或“未找到”（Not Found）。研究将该任务建模为三分类自然语言推理（natural language inference, NLI）问题，在零样本（zero-shot）设置下评估多个前沿大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）的表现。尽管最强模型达到 0.97 的准确率，但结果揭示出显著缺陷：即使在提供完整判决文本的情况下，模型仍会错误地将无支持的主张标记为有支持，且对缺失支持的检测难度高于直接矛盾，而虚构但合理的引文导致性能下降最为严重。因此，PARCEL 为测试法律领域检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）系统在主张层面的可信度与事实一致性提供了实用基准。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10971
作者: M. Mikail Demir,M. Abdullah Canbaz
机构: University at Albany, SUNY(纽约州立大学阿尔巴尼分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 9 pages, 2 figures, 7 tables. Published in the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2026), Singapore. Dataset: this https URL
Abstract:Large language models are increasingly used in legal research and drafting, but they can still produce claims that sound convincing without being supported by the cited source. We introduce PARCEL, a benchmark for checking whether a legal claim is supported by the underlying authority. Using recent New York State Court of Appeals decisions, we build a dataset of 3,396 parenthetical-style claims labeled as Supported, Refuted, or Not Found. We cast this task as a three-way natural language inference problem and evaluate several state-of-the-art LLMs in a zero-shot setting. Although the strongest models reach up to 0.97 accuracy, the results also show an important weakness: models still incorrectly mark unsupported claims as supported, even when the full opinion text is provided. Across models, missing support is harder to detect than direct contradiction, and fabricated but plausible citations cause the largest drop in performance. Overall, PARCEL provides a practical benchmark for testing claim-level groundedness in legal RAG systems.
[NLP-115] AI4Fire: Evaluating Large Language Models on Wildfire Tasks
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在野火管理任务中性能评估过于乐观的问题，尤其关注模型在缺乏外部信息支持（即“无锚定”）与具备任务特定上下文信息（即“有锚定”）条件下的实际表现差异。其核心问题是：当前对LLMs在真实野火场景中的能力评估存在严重偏差，部分源于训练数据或测试集中的泄露信息，导致结果不可靠甚至危及生命财产安全。解决方案的关键在于引入“锚定”机制——为模型提供与任务相关的具体参考信息（如同一摄像头的无烟参考帧），以检验其是否真正具备推理能力而非依赖数据偏见或提示模板。研究通过在五个野火任务上进行零样本测试，并对比6个核心模型在“裸运行”（bare）与“有锚定”（grounded）两种状态下的表现，揭示了锚定显著提升模型在关键任务（如数据库查询）中的准确性（从最高16%跃升至至少88%），同时发现简单规则仍优于多数模型，且公开数据释放可能隐含敏感信息泄露风险，强调了评估框架中严格控制数据泄露和引入真实世界上下文的重要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10946
作者: Yue Zhao,Xiyang Hu,Zuobin Xiong,Zhangyu Wang,Ruolin Li
机构: University of Southern California(南加州大学); Arizona State University(亚利桑那州立大学); University of Nevada, Las Vegas(内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校); University of Maine(缅因大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 51 pages. Code: this https URL
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are entering wildfire management, where overstated evaluations can cost property and lives. How do they perform on wildfire tasks, with and without grounding? Bare means a model receives the task input alone. Grounded means it also receives one task-specific addition: for smoke detection, a smoke-free reference frame from the same camera. AI4Fire runs six core models bare and grounded on five wildfire tasks, zero-shot; a sweep adds 29 more. Our literature search on fire tasks found 138 works; none combines this roster, task coverage, and paired bare and grounded runs. We report three findings. (1) Grounding helped most where the addition carried the answer: a read-only SQL tool lifted every core model’s database accuracy from at most 16 to at least 88 percent. (2) Simple rules were hard to beat: no core model outperformed repeating today’s staffing count, and two open-weight models mostly copied the median of similar earlier fire-days, a worse forecast. (3) Public releases carry hazards: a fire-danger column separates the holdout perfectly, and 67 aerial fire frames carry smoldering or fire-free labels read from a clipped thermal maximum. We release prompts, responses, scores, code, and the survey record.
[NLP-116] StoreBench: A Live-Commerce Environment for Evaluating and Training Autonomous Operator Agents
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大型语言模型（LLM）在后训练阶段评估中普遍存在的静态基准问题，即多数代理评估环境缺乏动态性与现实复杂性：世界状态仅在智能体行动时更新，奖励机制为终局判定，且通过标准设定随意。为此，论文提出StoreBench，一个基于真实生产级电商后端的动态直播电商环境，用于测试模型在长期规划与不确定性下的经济决策能力。其关键创新在于构建了一个持续运行、高度动态的真实世界模拟系统：客户全天候下单，供应商会调价或断供，市场冲击随机发生且预警不全；智能体通过29个与人类运营者相同的商户工具进行操作，并受窗口化操作预算约束，确保模型延迟不影响仿真时间进度。此外，通过脚本化锚定策略校准通过阈值，强化奖励机制以抵御各类奖励作弊（reward hacks），并保证相同动作序列下每轮实验可复现。在三个世界种子、共11种30至45天及完整一年周期的场景下，对七款前沿LLM进行评估，结果显示无一模型能超越预设的智能分诊脚本策略（最佳模型DeepSeek-V4-Pro仅达到其97%的平均表现）。人类专家在相同条件下表现优于所有模型（人类平均综合得分0.708，模型最高0.700）。值得注意的是，在采用Claude Code框架进行全年度模拟后，多数模型性能显著提升；在仅使用五个独立任务进行GRPO后训练的Qwen3.5-27B，其在保留评估任务上的平均综合得分从0.136提升至0.373。研究团队公开部分训练任务与样本轨迹及评分验证工具，但完整环境与评估套件暂不开放，以维持基准的纯净性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10942
作者: Daksh Raghuvanshi,Ved Vedere,Yifan Wang
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 22 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables
Abstract:Reinforcement learning environments are now a primary lever for improving large language model (LLM) capabilities in post-training, yet most agentic benchmarks remain static: the world moves only when the agent acts, the reward is a terminal verdict, and the pass bar is set arbitrarily. We introduce StoreBench, a live-commerce environment in which an agent runs a mid-size online apparel store on a production-grade commerce backend, testing long-horizon planning and economic judgment under uncertainty. Customers order around the clock, suppliers reprice and fail, and market shocks arrive with partial or no warning. The agent acts through the same 29 merchant tools a human operator would use, under a windowed operation budget that makes simulated time a function of actions taken, so model latency cannot influence simulated time. Pass thresholds are calibrated against scripted anchor policies, the reward is hardened against a catalogue of reward hacks, and every episode replays identically given a sequence of actions. We evaluate seven frontier LLMs on 11 scenarios of 30 to 45 days and a full simulated year, over three world seeds at matched reasoning effort. No model matches the scripted smart-triage policy on average: the best, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, passes 49% of task-seed cells against the heuristic’s 97%. Human experts working through the same tools and budgets outscore every model (mean composite 0.708 vs. 0.700). Over a full simulated year under the Claude Code harness, most models show dramatic performance improvement. In a GRPO post-training run, Qwen3.5-27B trained on only five disjoint tasks raises its mean composite on the held-out evaluation tasks from 0.136 to 0.373. We release five example training-split tasks, ten sample trajectories, and the scoring and verification tooling; the full environment and evaluation suite are withheld to keep the benchmark uncontaminated.
[NLP-117] Large Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Annotation: Humans and Models Are Both Challenged EMNLP2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在机器翻译评估中替代人工判断的可靠性问题，特别是在多维度质量度量（MQM）和错误区间标注（ESA）两种主流评估范式下的表现差异。其核心挑战在于：尽管部分任务中大语言模型（LLM）与人工标注者的一致性高于人与人之间的共识，但这种一致性在不同标注方案、语种对及领域间波动显著，整体上仍不足以保证可靠应用。解决方案的关键在于识别出人类与LLM在细粒度标注、低资源语言对以及微小错误、语言变体误判和错误区间定位方面的共性局限，并提出通过构建人机协同标注流程来系统性提升标注一致性与评估可信度。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10918
作者: Hala Almaghout,Christian Federmann,Qin Gao
机构: Apple(苹果)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted at EMNLP 2026
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are considered to be a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to human judgment for Machine Translation (MT) evaluation. With MT evaluation spanning a large number of language pairs, domains and levels of annotation granularity, LLMs must be thoroughly evaluated across these dimensions before being reliably used as alternatives to human evaluation. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of LLMs for two prominent MT quality evaluation schemes: Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) and Error Span Annotation (ESA) by comparing their agreement with human annotators. We present results on a long-context test set of 70 language pairs and the publicly available WMT23 and WMT25 data, investigating both score and error span annotation agreement across a variety of language pairs and domains. Our results show that while LLM agreement with human annotators exceeds agreement between human annotators for some evaluation tasks, both vary substantially across annotation schemes, language pairs and domains and remain unreliable for most settings. Furthermore, we identify challenges facing both human and LLM annotators: humans are particularly challenged by fine-grained MQM annotations and low-resource language pairs, while LLMs struggle with minor errors, wrong language variants and error span annotation. Our results highlight the potential for improvement for both human and LLM annotation performance, possibly through human-LLM collaborative annotation pipelines that address the reliability issues identified in this work.
[NLP-118] Stochastic Teacher Intervention for Agent ic On-Policy Distillation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在多轮代理任务（multi-turn agentic tasks）中，基于策略的蒸馏（On-policy Distillation, OPD）因学生决策导致观测序列累积误差、轨迹偏离教师生成分布的问题，从而使得教师提供的逐标记监督变得不可靠甚至产生反效果。其核心解决方案是提出一种随机教师干预框架（STI-OPD），通过引入基于教师-学生策略差异（policy discrepancy）的动态干预机制来增强监督可靠性。关键创新在于：1）利用KL散度估计策略差异，并将其映射为干预概率，实现自适应的随机干预，克服了传统固定阈值或固定周期干预方式的局限性；2）设计了一种重要性加权逆KL目标函数（Importance-Weighted Reverse KL objective），以校正由教师生成响应与学生策略之间采样分布不匹配所引起的偏差，从而有效保留原始OPD的目标。实验表明，STI-OPD在工具集成推理和长时程交互任务上均显著优于现有最强基准，且消融实验证明了策略差异引导干预与重要性加权对性能提升的关键作用。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10878
作者: Junnan Liu,Linhao Luo,Zhijun Chen,Qianren Mao,Thuy-Trang Vu,Gholamreza Haffari
机构: Monash University (莫纳什大学); The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (香港理工大学); Zhongguancun Laboratory (中关村实验室)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Work in progress
Abstract:On-policy distillation (OPD) efficiently transfers capabilities from a stronger teacher to a student language model through dense token-level supervision on student-generated rollouts and has shown promise on complex tasks such as mathematical reasoning. However, in multi-turn agentic tasks, student decisions shape subsequent observations, causing early errors to accumulate across turns. The resulting trajectories can drift away from the teacher’s rollout distribution, making the teacher’s token-level supervision less reliable or even counterproductive for OPD training. To address this issue, we introduce STI-OPD, a stochastic teacher intervention framework for multi-turn agentic OPD. During multi-turn interaction, STI-OPD uses teacher intervention guided by teacher-student policy discrepancy to replace the student’s proposed action with a teacher-generated one to maximize the acquisition of reliable supervision. We further develop a stochastic intervention strategy, addressing the limitations of previous threshold-based or fixed-schedule approaches, that estimates policy discrepancy using KL divergence and maps it to an intervention probability. By sampling whether to intervene from this probability, STI-OPD adaptively balances teacher control with student exploration. To learn from the resulting mixed-policy trajectories, we introduce an Importance-Weighted Reverse KL objective that corrects the token sampling mismatch between teacher-generated responses and the student policy to preserve the original OPD objective. Across tool-integrated reasoning and long-horizon interaction, STI-OPD outperforms the strongest prior OPD baseline on every evaluated benchmark and student size. Ablations further show that both discrepancy-guided intervention and importance weighting contribute to these gains.
[NLP-119] Sparse Attention Is Matrix Approximation Not Choosing from a Bag of Values
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在处理长提示（prompt）时因注意力机制的二次计算开销而导致效率低下的问题。现有稀疏注意力（Sparse Attention）方法通过仅保留注意力矩阵中少量查询-键交互来降低计算成本，但其核心缺陷在于采用数学上不正确的策略：简单地选取注意力矩阵中数值较大的标量值或高权重区域，将注意力矩阵视为无结构的数值集合，忽略了其作为结构化矩阵的本质——其元素通过与值向量相乘共同决定注意力输出。这一认知偏差导致了次优的稀疏化效果。本文提出基于矩阵近似（Matrix Approximation）视角的解决方案——矩阵近似稀疏注意力（Matrix Approximation Sparse Attention, MASA），其关键创新在于摒弃传统的原始注意力质量排序，转而引入一个闭式评分函数，该函数量化每个稀疏单元对整体矩阵-乘积近似误差的减少程度，从而实现更精准的稀疏选择。MASA作为一种理论驱动的即插即用修正模块，可无缝集成至现有稀疏注意力框架中，无需修改其稀疏核或预算策略。大量实验表明，MASA在多种稀疏注意力方法、基准测试和主流LLM架构上均带来一致的性能提升，验证了其有效性及“稀疏注意力应被建模为矩阵近似”这一核心观点。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10871
作者: Fang Wan,Xufeng Liu,Fan Li,Yi Liu
机构: Stony Brook University (石溪大学); Duke University (杜克大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many domains, but their efficiency is limited by the quadratic cost of attention with respect to prompt length. Sparse attention reduces this cost by retaining only a small fraction of query-key interactions to approximate the full attention matrix. However, existing methods are trapped in a mathematically wrong view: they simply keep large scalar entries or high-mass regions of the attention matrix. This treats the attention matrix as a bag of values, ignoring that it is used as a structured matrix whose entries jointly determine the attention output through multiplication with value vectors. We argue that this is the core conceptual issue: sparse attention should be formulated as matrix approximation, not as blindly choosing the largest values from a bag of entries. Based on this view, we propose Matrix Approximation Sparse Attention (MASA). MASA replaces raw attention-mass ranking with a closed-form score that measures how much each sparse unit reduces matrix-product approximation error. As a theory-grounded plug-in correction, MASA can be added to existing sparse attention frameworks without changing their sparse kernels or budgets. Extensive experiments across multiple sparse attention methods, benchmarks, and LLM backbones show consistent accuracy gains, supporting both MASA and the matrix-approximation view of sparse attention.
[NLP-120] Disentangling Linguistic and Paralinguistic Information with Routed Sparse Autoencoders
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决自监督语音编码器（Self-supervised Speech Encoders, SPE）中语言信息与副语言信息在共享表示空间中纠缠难分的问题。其核心挑战在于如何实现对不同类型信息的解耦，以支持下游任务中对特定因子的独立控制与利用。论文提出的解决方案关键在于构建一种基于TopK稀疏自动编码器（TopK sparse autoencoder）的路由机制，并引入路径特异性监督（route-specific supervision）与跨因子对抗器（cross-factor adversaries）。该方法通过在冻结的SPEAR和WavLM编码器上学习双路径结构，使语言信息主要保留在语言路径中，而说话人身份、情感、语调等副语言因素则被有效保留于副语言路径并显著抑制于语言路径。实验表明，该路由结构在不同数据集（如LibriSpeech与MSP-Podcast）间具有良好的泛化能力，且在特征空间层面进行路径干预可实现因子交换，同时保持未修改路径的信息完整性。这一方案实现了跨编码器、跨数据集、独立探测器及表示级干预下的稳定因子选择性分离。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10865
作者: Beimnet Bekele Guta,Xiaoyu Yang,Guangzhi Sun,Philip C. Woodland
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
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Abstract:Self-supervised speech encoders contain linguistic and paralinguistic information in a shared, entangled representation space. We combine a TopK sparse autoencoder with route-specific supervision and cross-factor adversaries. Across frozen SPEAR and WavLM encoders, independent probes show factor-specific retention and suppression: linguistic information remains stronger in the linguistic route, while paralinguistic factors, including speaker identity, emotion, and prosody, are retained in the paralinguistic route and substantially reduced in the linguistic route. The route organisation learned on LibriSpeech persists on MSP-Podcast without representation-side retraining. Feature-space route interventions further transfer the swapped factor while largely preserving the information carried by the unchanged route. These results show consistent route-selective separation across encoders, corpora, independent probes, and representation-level interventions.
[NLP-121] Real Long-Term Memory for AI: A 50-Million-Token Window That Is Faster and Cheaper Than Recompute
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）在处理长文本时因上下文窗口（context window）限制导致的上下文记忆能力不足问题，以及每次输入提示时需重新计算内部键值（Key-Value, KV）状态所带来的高计算开销与能耗问题。其核心解决方案是引入一个名为galahad-kv的内存层，将每块约16,000个token的KV状态加密存储至本地NVMe固态硬盘，并在后续请求中以字节精确的方式直接加载，避免重复计算。实验在单个NVIDIA H100 GPU上使用vLLM服务，对5000万真实公开文本进行测试，分别部署Gemma 4 12B和Gemma 4 31B模型。结果表明，在长达5000万token的流式处理过程中，所有探测块均成功从加密存储中加载且无需重计算（100/100），加载速度比重算快2.8至4.3倍，GPU能耗降低8.8至12.3倍，同时GPU显存使用量保持稳定。当被询问数百万token前植入的事实时，12B和31B模型分别正确回答82次和98次，且未出现编造答案。关键创新在于实现了对已计算状态的持久化复用，而非扩展注意力窗口；其局限性包括写入为一次性开销、存储需占用数TB本地NVMe空间，以及单次仅加载一个块。研究还设计了抗作弊的测试协议，并提供基于开源软件与免费许可证的单卡可复现方案。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10845
作者: Sietse Schelpe
机构: Corbenic AI
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:A large language model can only use the text that fits in its context window, and it recomputes its internal key-value (KV) state for a prompt every time the prompt is sent. We test a memory layer, the public package galahad-kv, that saves the KV state of each block of about 16,000 tokens to encrypted local NVMe disk and loads it back later, byte-exact, without recomputing it. We ran it on 50,000,000 tokens of real public text, served through vLLM on one NVIDIA H100, with Gemma 4 12B and Gemma 4 31B. Every block we probed was loaded back from the encrypted store with no recompute (100 of 100, at depths from 0 to 50M tokens) on both models. Loading a block was 2.8x to 4.3x faster than recomputing it and used 8.8x to 12.3x less GPU energy, and GPU memory stayed flat over the whole 50M-token stream. Asked about facts planted millions of tokens earlier, the 12B model gave the right answer 82 times out of 100 and the 31B model 98 times out of 100. Neither model made up an answer. The limits are as follows. This is reuse of stored state, not a wider attention window: one block is loaded at a time, and how well a question is answered depends on the model. Writing the memory is a one-time cost, and the store takes terabytes of local NVMe disk. We describe the test protocol, which is built to resist common ways of gaming long-context benchmarks, and give a single-GPU reproduction that uses public software and a free licence for the package.
[NLP-122] Grammar Concept Annotation at Scale: Deployed Fine-Tuned Small Language Models Outperform Prompted Frontier Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决语言学习过程中语法掌握情况难以量化与追踪的问题，即尽管纠正性反馈（corrective feedback）被证实是第二语言习得中最有效的驱动因素之一，但教学中产生的纠错信息通常无法有效整合为可操作的语法掌握视图。为此，论文提出一种基于小规模语言模型（SLM）的高效解决方案：通过在过滤并重新平衡后的教师生成标注数据上微调Qwen3.5小型语言模型，并部署一个0.8B参数量的轻量级模型，构建端到端的语法掌握追踪系统。其核心创新在于将标注规范内化至适配器权重（adapter weights），从而实现以紧凑匹配提示（compact matched prompt）替代冗长指令，显著提升效率。在两个经人工校准的基准测试中，该0.8B模型与4B参考模型均在概念、证据跨度及正确性等逐层严格的嵌套匹配标准下，优于提示式GPT-5.4和GPT-5.6 Sol，在精确率与召回率上表现更优；同时，该部署方案使服务成本降低约16倍。在线特征级实验表明，该系统显著提升了学习者参与度（+15.8%）、预定课时（+2.1%）及新课程带来的商品价值（GMV，+13.2%），验证了其在实际应用中的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10827
作者: Marjan Celikik,Ana Peleteiro Ramallo,Javier Morales
机构: Preply(普雷普利)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Corrective feedback is among the best-evidenced drivers of second-language acquisition, yet corrections delivered during lessons rarely accumulate into an actionable view of grammar mastery. Prompted frontier models can provide such a view from learner–tutor lesson transcripts, but they are costly at scale. We close this gap by fine-tuning Qwen3.5 small language models (SLMs) on filtered and rebalanced teacher-generated supervision, then deploying an efficient 0.8B model in an end-to-end grammar mastery tracker for all English learners on our platform. Internalizing the annotation contract into adapter weights enables pairing the 0.8B model with a compact matched prompt rather than verbose instructions. On two human-curated benchmarks, both the deployed 0.8B model and a 4B reference comparator outperform prompted GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.6 Sol in precision and recall under nested matching criteria of increasing strictness: concept, evidence span, and correctness. The deployed 0.8B SLM reduces serving cost by approximately 16 \times . A feature-level online experiment shows significant gains in learner engagement ( +15.8% ) and key business metrics, including scheduled hours ( +2.1% ) and GMV from new lessons ( +13.2% ).
[NLP-123] NavGPT -3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtime
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决具身智能体在复杂环境中的长期任务规划与低层物理控制之间的鸿沟问题，即如何将具备长时程推理能力的生成式语言模型（Generative AI）与高精度、低延迟的动作策略（action policy）有效结合，以实现高效、灵活且实时响应的自主导航。其核心解决方案是提出NavGPT-3框架，一个类操作系统（OS-like）的运行时系统，将推理、执行与监控作为独立线程并行运行，各自拥有独立上下文、工具和权限，由运行时动态调度并决定何时由哪个线程控制机器人运动，从而支持对突发现实事件的即时中断与线程切换。该框架的关键在于通过结构化协同机制，使语言模型的高层决策能够无缝对接动作策略的底层控制：底层采用基于视觉令牌按场景变化比例分配的编码器分配策略（codec allocation）训练的80亿参数NavGPT VLA模型，在R2R-CE上达到74.51%成功率，领先于现有方法；集成完整框架后，NavGPT-3在R2R-CE上达到81.51%成功率，并首次在RxR-CE任务中实现与人类水平相当的表现——成功率达90.43%（人类为90.4%），路径保真度达78.47（人类为77.7 nDTW），且单次任务平均耗时仅1分22秒，远低于人类约3分钟。消融实验进一步揭示了工具使用与动作策略对从语言模型推理到物理控制转化路径的决定性影响：当动作策略执行路径时，推理循环显著缩短，系统最小反应时间从语言模型决策的3–19秒降至动作策略每步0.5–1秒（1–2 Hz），大幅提升了实时性。这些结果表明，构建高效的具身接口是打通前沿语言智能与底层物理控制的核心所在。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10787
作者: Gengze Zhou,Yicong Hong,Jiazhao Zhang,Xunyi Zhao,Jian Zhou,Zixing Lei,Zun Wang,Chongyang Zhao,Xionghui Chen,Stephen Gould,Anton van den Hengel,Qi Wu
机构: Adelaide University (阿德莱德大学); Roblox; PKU (北京大学); SJTU (上海交通大学); UNC Chapel Hill (北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校); UNSW (新南威尔士大学); Metacognition; ANU (澳大利亚国立大学)
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Language models trained with long-horizon agentic reinforcement learning can generalize knowledge through reasoning, express precise actions, and pursue goals over many steps, raising the ceiling on what an embodied agent can understand and decide. Physical interaction, however, remains the domain of action policies, which provide dense, low-latency control. We present NavGPT-3, a harness that connects the two models, with an OS-like runtime built above it: reasoning, acting, and monitoring run as threads with their own context, tools, and permissions, while the runtime schedules them and decides which thread controls the robot’s motion, so that the robot can react to sudden real-world events through interruption and thread switching. Beneath it, our action policy NavGPT VLA, trained on 19.28M examples, allocates visual tokens using codec allocation, in proportion to scene change; its 8B model alone reaches 74.51 SR on R2R-CE and leads RxR-CE with 78.19 SR. With the complete harness, NavGPT-3 sets the state of the art on R2R-CE (81.51 SR) and, for the first time, brings an autonomous agent to human level: on RxR-CE it matches human followers in success (90.43 vs. 90.4 SR) and path fidelity (78.47 vs. 77.7 nDTW) at 1 min 22 s per episode, versus roughly 3 min for a human. We comprehensively ablate the harness design and the interaction between the two models, showing how tools and the action policy shape the path from language-model reasoning to physical control: when NavGPT VLA executes the route, the reasoning loop shortens and the system’s minimum reaction time falls from 3-19 s per language-model decision to 0.5-1 s per action-policy step (1-2 Hz). These results show that designing this embodied interface is central to connecting frontier language-model intelligence with low-level physical control. We will release all models, code, and evaluation records.
[NLP-124] Plan-and-Patch: Diffusion Language Models for Agent ic Planning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决长时程智能体在执行复杂任务时面临的规划与动态修正难题，即如何在环境变化、工具失效或动作失败导致原计划失效的情况下，高效地对已有计划进行局部修复而非全盘重生成。其核心挑战在于保持计划整体结构的连贯性同时实现精准、低开销的局部调整。解决方案的关键是提出“Plan-and-Patch”框架，利用扩散语言模型（dLLM）通过并行去掩码（parallel unmasking）生成结构化、类程序化的初始计划，并基于保留的前缀与后缀，仅对受损区域进行条件化补全以实现计划修复。实验表明，在无需任务特定训练的自然规划任务中，扩散模型（53.7%）的计划修复成功率接近自回归模型（AR）（27.0%）的两倍；在经过代理基准任务（ALFWorld和TextCraft）微调后，两者生成成功率相当，但扩散模型将平均计划生成延迟降低了39%-46%，显著提升了效率。因此，该方法实现了在长时程任务中更快的计划生成与更有效的局部修复能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10786
作者: Syamantak Kumar,Jiang Guo,Hassan Hamad,Hideo Kobayashi,Yi Xiang,Yezhou Yang,Yanjun Qi,Daniele Bonadiman,Jiarong Jiang
机构: University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校); Amazon(亚马逊)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Planning is increasingly important for long-horizon agents, where successful execution requires coordinating subgoals, tool use, and intermediate outcomes over many steps. Yet assumptions made during planning may be invalidated by the environment, tools may return unexpected results, or actions may fail. Effective agents must therefore not only generate plans, but also revise them. Such revisions often affect only part of a plan, leaving the preceding and subsequent structure intact. Rather than regenerate the entire plan and risk unnecessary changes, repair can regenerate the affected region conditioned on the preserved prefix and suffix. We introduce Plan-and-Patch, a plan-and-act framework in which a diffusion language model (dLLM) generates a structured, program-like plan through parallel unmasking and repairs it by filling in selected regions while keeping the surrounding steps fixed. We compare DreamReasoner-8B and Qwen3-8B as diffusion and autoregressive (AR) planners. On Natural Plan without task-specific training, diffusion (53.7%) achieves nearly twice the plan repair success rate of AR (27.0%). After task-specific training on agentic benchmarks, ALFWorld and TextCraft, the planners achieve similar observed success in plan generation, while diffusion reduces mean plan-generation latency by 39-46% relative to AR. Our results show that Plan-and-Patch provides a framework for faster plan generation and effective plan repair in long-horizon agents.
[NLP-125] Clarify Then Focus: Statement Normalization for Conversation Analytics at Scale
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决企业对话分析中因重复进行语义解读与信息筛选而导致的高成本问题，即在处理数百万次交互时，针对不同分析问题需反复重构对话含义并识别关键信息。其解决方案的关键在于提出“先澄清文本，再聚焦读者”的简化原则：通过语句归一化（statement normalization）将对话转化为带说话人归属、源参考和语义标签的简短语句，使语义更明确，同时利用标签支持针对特定问题选择相关证据。下游模型可依据任务需求使用完整表示或子集信息，提升决策效率。实验表明，在客服电话中的报价抑制任务中，归一化显著提升了监督分类器性能，而弱提示阅读模型则同时受益于归一化与选择机制。该方法可通过小模型学习归一化规则，轻量编码器完成标签标注与下游判断，实现全链条基于小型模型的推理流水线，大幅降低对海量对话进行分析的计算开销。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10758
作者: Mikhail L. Arbuzov(Independent researcher),Karan Dave(Independent researcher),Evgeniya Dontsova(Independent researcher),Yaodong Hu(Independent researcher),Vincent Lao(Independent researcher),Navita Jain(Independent researcher),Sisong Bei(Independent researcher),Dmitry Dimov(Independent researcher)
机构: Independent researchers
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Enterprise conversation analytics asks many questions of millions of interactions. Each question can require reconstructing what people mean and identifying which information matters, repeating costly interpretive work across the same transcripts. We propose a simple principle: clarify the text, then focus the reader. Statement normalization transforms dialogue into short, speaker-attributed statements with source references and semantic tags. The statements make meaning more explicit; the tags support selecting evidence for a particular question. Downstream models can use the full representation or a relevant subset, depending on what helps them make the decision. In an offer-suppression task on customer-service calls, normalization improves a supervised classifier without selection, while weaker prompted readers benefit from both normalization and selection. A small model can learn the normalization contract, while lightweight encoders handle tagging and downstream decisions. Sharing this preparation across questions supports an inference pipeline built entirely from small models, making analytics over millions of conversations substantially less expensive.
[NLP-126] Conversational Task Disambiguation over Tabular Data: Leakage-Aware Formulation Benchmark Suite and Training
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决对话式表格数据任务消歧中存在的关键问题：现有评估与训练方法缺乏对“预言机泄露”（oracle leakage）的感知，导致任务成功率混淆了对话消歧与解题生成能力，且难以区分真实用户行为与模拟器泄露信息。其核心解决方案是提出“可验证的模糊任务”（ambiguous verifiable task）这一新范式，形式化定义模糊性及其消解过程，将智能体（agent）分解为提问策略（asking policy）与解题策略（solution policy），环境则拆分为预言机（oracle）与验证器（verifier）。该框架实现了消歧与解题的独立评估、对预言机泄露的明确定义与无需人工判断的泄露诊断机制，并为提问策略提供基于强化学习的训练目标。研究通过在文本到SQL场景中构建的AmbiTab基准套件，统一六类模糊数据集，建立共享的访问边界与表示结构，实证表明所训练的提问策略在全部六项数据集上提升了消歧指标，在五项上提升任务成功率，同时其泄露诊断工具可有效量化训练过程对预言机泄露的影响。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10740
作者: Nafiseh Ghoroghchian,Luis Scoccola,Tina Sedaghat,Omid Vaheb,Hannah Chen,Dino D’Agostino,Keyvan Golestan
机构: Layer 6 AI
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Conversational task disambiguation over tabular data uses dialogue to resolve missing information about a user’s intended task before producing a solution over tables or databases. Existing evaluation and training lack a leakage-aware foundation. Task success mixes the agent’s disambiguation and solution-generation capabilities and can also reflect oracle leakage, that is, information that a user simulator reveals beyond what a real user would. Existing datasets also lack a shared representation of ambiguities and access boundaries. We introduce the notion of an ambiguous verifiable task, which formalizes ambiguities and resolutions, decomposing the agent into an asking policy and a solution policy, and the environment into an oracle and verifier. This framework provides baselines and metrics for evaluating task disambiguation separately from solution generation, formal definitions of oracle leakage, judge-free leakage diagnostics, and a training objective for the asking policy. We instantiate the framework in text-to-SQL with AmbiTab, a benchmark suite that unifies six ambiguous datasets under a common representation specifying what the agent, oracle, and verifier may access. We evaluate clarification strategies and oracle leakage, and train an asking policy with reinforcement learning. The trained asker improves our disambiguation metrics on all six datasets and task success on five, and our leakage diagnostics measure how training affects oracle leakage.
[NLP-127] Lossy Compressive Text Autoencoders
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决文本数据在保持语义信息的同时实现高效压缩的难题，其核心挑战在于如何在极低比特率下构建兼具高重建质量与强下游任务性能的紧凑潜在表示。解决方案的关键在于提出一种新型自编码器架构，通过沿时间轴进行残差式下采样与上采样，并引入一个残差的低维离散瓶颈（discrete bottleneck），以实现对隐藏表示的高效压缩。该设计不仅支持多种量化方法和训练目标的灵活配置，还能在不同压缩率下有效平衡表面级（如BLEU）与语义级（基于大语言模型评估）的重建质量。实验表明，该方法在网页文本数据上可达到2.24比特/字节的压缩率，性能接近无损文本压缩算法，同时在问答和语义文本相似性等下游任务中表现优异，验证了所学潜在表示的语义保真度与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10738
作者: Vinko Sabolčec,Angelos Katharopoulos,David Grangier
机构: Apple(苹果)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Our work explores learning a compressed latent representation of text, at the intersection of data compression and representation learning. We propose an autoencoder architecture that performs residual downscaling and upscaling of hidden representations along the time axis, with a residual low-dimension discrete bottleneck. We analyze our approach for different quantization methods, training objectives, and datasets. For different levels of compression, we evaluate the similarity between the original and reconstructed text both at the surface-level (BLEU) and at the semantic-level (LLM-based judge). Additionally, we evaluate our models on downstream question-answering and semantic text similarity benchmarks. Our approach results in compressed representations which are on par with lossless text compression algorithms at 2.24 bits per byte on web text data, while having good reconstruction and downstream task performance.
[NLP-128] Cognitive Thermometers: Machine Learning and Logical Complexity
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决人类心智如何表征语义范畴（semantic categories）以及自然语言为何偏好某些意义而非其他意义这一核心认知科学问题。传统解释依赖于逻辑可定义性与逻辑复杂性，但此类方法对逻辑语言的选择高度敏感，导致部分理论设计缺乏充分依据。本文提出，机器学习（machine learning）提供了一种更为中立的语义复杂性度量方式，能够减少对特定逻辑形式系统的依赖。研究综述了新兴证据，表明在相对复杂性的判断上，逻辑与机器学习常得出一致结论，并共同解释语义类型学中的模式；而在二者分歧之处，机器学习模型的表现更符合实际认知现象。作者主张将机器学习模型视为“认知温度计”（cognitive thermometers），从而建立一个统一的复杂性理论框架，实现符号逻辑与连接主义人工智能之间的有效衔接。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10724
作者: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld,Jakub Szymanik
机构: University of Washington, Department of Linguistics(华盛顿大学语言学系); University of Trento, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science(特伦托大学心智/大脑科学中心及信息工程与计算机科学系)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:How does the human mind represent semantic categories? Why do natural languages favor certain meanings over others? Prior explanations have relied on logical definability and complexity, but these are highly sensitive to the choice of logical language, rendering some design choices unmotivated. In this article, we propose that machine learning provides a somewhat more agnostic approach to measuring semantic complexity. We review emerging evidence that logic and machine learning often yield converging results on relative complexity and its resulting effects in semantic typology. Where they diverge, learning appears to be a better explanation than logical complexity. We argue that treating machine learning models as ``cognitive thermometers’’ enables a unified approach to complexity that bridges symbolic logic and connectionist AI.
[NLP-129] Large Language Model-Assisted Preparation of Transportation Management Plans: A Case Study with WisDOT WisTMP System
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决交通工程中作业区（Work zones）管理计划（TMP）编制过程繁琐、高度依赖从业人员经验且效率低下的问题。当前的TMP制定仍以人工为主，缺乏自动化支持，导致资源消耗大且易受主观因素影响。为此，本文提出一种基于大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）的辅助框架，旨在实现TMP内容的自动化生成，并以威斯康星州交通部（WisDOT）的WisTMP系统为应用背景。其核心解决方案在于：通过在本地部署并微调多个不同规模的开源LLM（如7B/8B/14B），在保障数据安全的前提下提升模型对交通管理语境的理解与生成能力；同时，构建了一个领域特定的数据集，将历史PDF格式的WisTMP文档转化为结构化的问答对（JSON格式），用于模型训练。实验结果表明，微调显著提升了文本生成性能，但在策略生成方面存在过度生成现象，且在项目特定理由阐述和成本估算准确性方面表现不足，而模型规模从7B/8B扩展至14B带来的性能增益有限。这揭示了当前LLM在辅助生成高质量、精准化TMP中的潜力与局限性，强调未来需在逻辑一致性、上下文敏感性和领域知识融合方面进一步优化。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10650
作者: Zihao Sheng,Pei Li,Zilin Huang,Yen-Jung Chen,Yuhao Luo,Zhengyang Wan,Steven T. Parker,David A. Noyce,Sikai Chen
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Work zones are critical yet hazardous components of transportation infrastructure, requiring carefully designed Transportation Management Plans (TMPs) to ensure safety and mobility. However, TMP preparation remains labor-intensive and heavily dependent on practitioner expertise. This paper proposes a Large Language Model (LLM)-assisted framework to automate TMP content generation, leveraging the WisDOT WisTMP system as the application context. The framework fine-tunes multiple open-source LLMs across different model scales and deploys them locally to ensure data security. To support model training, we construct a domain-specific dataset from historical WisTMP documents by converting PDF files into structured question-answer pairs in JSON format. Experimental results show that fine-tuning significantly improves performance across standard text generation metrics. Further section-wise and strategy-level analyses reveal that, while LLMs achieve strong overall performance, they tend to over-generate strategies and struggle to produce project-specific justifications and accurate cost estimates. In addition, scaling from 7B/8B to 14B yields limited gains. These findings demonstrate the potential of LLMs to improve TMP preparation efficiency while highlighting remaining challenges in LLM-assisted TMP development. The source code and demo videos will be publicly available at this https URL.
[NLP-130] Recurrent Self-Improvement: Dynamic Cross-Loop On-Policy Distillation for Looped Language Models ICLR2027
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决循环语言模型（Looped Language Models, LoopLMs）在后训练阶段缺乏高效、密集且无需外部教师或特权信息的监督信号这一关键问题。现有方法要么依赖稀疏的基于奖励的监督，难以扩展至多轮迭代；要么依赖外部教师模型，导致教师可用性受限或师生上下文不匹配。为此，论文提出跨循环在线策略蒸馏框架（LoopOPD），其核心创新在于利用模型自身在循环计算过程中生成的中间状态作为“自监督教师”——通过冻结终端循环策略（terminal loop policy）对中间循环学生（intermediate loop student）进行基于生成轨迹的密集监督，从而实现无需外部知识的高密度反馈。进一步地，论文提出动态循环OPD（D-LoopOPD），通过随共享参数更新持续刷新终端教师策略，实现循环自我改进。实验表明，该方法显著提升了数学推理能力，并在通用推理与代码生成任务上展现出泛化性能，验证了循环计算本身可作为有效监督来源。关键贡献在于揭示了蒸馏更新在不同循环深度间的传播机制，并推导出单次更新即能同步提升各层局部性能的充分条件。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10623
作者: Yi Wang,Rui Qian,Yu Li,Haoyang Yao,Wenjie Wang
机构: ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学); Fudan University(复旦大学); Southeast University(东南大学); Peking University(北京大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 28 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ICLR 2027
Abstract:Looped Language Models (LoopLMs) offer a parameter efficient approach to scaling reasoning by reusing shared parameters across recurrent computation steps. Despite their promise, effective post-training of LoopLMs remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide reward based supervision that is sparse or costly to extend across loops, or rely on external teachers or privileged information, leading to limited teacher availability or teacher-student context mismatch. To address these limitations, we introduce LoopOPD, a cross-loop on-policy distillation framework that uses additional recurrent computation within a LoopLM as its own source of supervision. LoopOPD uses a frozen terminal loop policy as a compute privileged teacher for an intermediate loop student on student generated rollouts, providing dense supervision without an external teacher or privileged information. We further propose Dynamic LoopOPD (D-LoopOPD), which continually refreshes the terminal loop teacher as the shared model parameters are updated, enabling recurrent self-improvement. We characterize how distillation updates propagate across loop depths and derive sufficient conditions under which a single update yields simultaneous local improvement at both loop depths. Experiments on Ouro-Thinking models show that LoopOPD improves mathematical reasoning, while D-LoopOPD yields further gains through dynamic teacher updates. Despite being trained only on mathematical data, the resulting models also improve on general reasoning and code generation benchmarks, demonstrating that recurrent computation can serve as an effective source of supervision for LoopLMs. Our code and model checkpoints will be released upon acceptance.
[NLP-131] WorldBench: Evaluating LLM s on Three.js Voxel World Generation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式3D世界（LLM-generated 3D worlds）在自动化评估中因视角局限导致的不可靠性问题。现有评估方法通常依赖单一视角：视觉-语言模型仅基于渲染快照进行评分，或语言模型仅分析源代码文本，二者在关键功能判断上存在显著分歧——研究发现，在五个前沿模型生成的世界中，两种评估方式对必需功能的判定一致性仅达68%，主要由于代码中存在无法通过静态图像捕捉的逻辑或细节，且固定视角易遗漏近距离内容。为此，论文提出WorldBench基准与多模态联合判别框架，其核心创新在于融合动态探索与双重验证机制：裁判系统不仅控制时间、轨道并派遣导航代理遍历每个生态区，还实时读取代码以验证所见内容；同时采用双通道可信度约束——代码引用仅当原文确有对应文本时有效，视觉陈述则通过像素级测量进行可量化验证。通过构造移除特征的突变测试表明，纯代码评估对被移除功能仍给予全分（5个中4个），而本方案将保留得分从5.44降至3.55（满分7.11），显著提升评估真实性。该方法有效缓解了“代码存在但未执行”带来的误判问题，为开放域生成式3D世界提供了更全面、可靠的自动化评测路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10622
作者: Krish Bakshi
机构: 未知
类目: Graphics (cs.GR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:Large language models can now write complete, interactive 3D worlds as code, but grading those worlds automatically is unreliable. Existing judges take one view of the output: a vision-language model scores a few rendered snapshots, or a language model reads the source. On worlds written by five frontier models we find that the two views disagree on 32% of required items, mostly code that no frame shows, and that fixed views miss small close-up contents. We present WorldBench, a benchmark and judge for open-ended, LLM-generated this http URL worlds. From one prompt describing a floating voxel island with ten biomes, physics, and day/night and seasonal cycles, the judge explores the running world, controlling its clock, orbiting it, and sending a navigator agent to frame each biome, and reads the code for what it sees. Neither channel is trusted on its own: a code quote counts only if it is text the source contains, and visual claims are checked against measured pixels where the property is measurable. A mutation test, in which we remove features by construction, shows that code-only judging gives full credit to four of five removed features, because their code remains in the file. Our judge cuts the points kept on removed features by a third (5.44 to 3.55 of 7.11), and what it still credits is mostly code that exists but never runs. We evaluate five frontier models: Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Kimi K3, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Code, prompt, tests and judge configuration are available at this https URL
[NLP-132] Wieszcz-XIX: A 3.1-Billion-Word Corpus of Pre-1918 Polish and Temporally Bounded Language Models Trained From Scratch
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决19世纪波兰语（Polish）历史文本在机器可读形式下的数据稀缺与质量不一问题。尽管历史波兰语有丰富的文献记录，但可直接用于自然语言处理的标注语料仅约百万词规模，其余文本依赖光学字符识别（OCR），存在识别错误、重复及后1918年内容混入等缺陷。为此，研究提出Wieszcz-XIX语料库，涵盖1800至1918年间发表的67.5亿个词元（约31亿词）、294,369篇文档（主要为期刊），通过自动化流水线从Wolne Lektury和互联网档案馆整合并清洗数据，实现文档级分割、去重、后1918年内容泄漏检测与剔除，最终保留的残留污染率仅为0.04%–0.38%字节。该语料规模超过已有标注语料三个数量级以上。研究进一步评估其缺陷：在人工校对样本中，可读文本的字符错误率为0.68%，而45%的片段无法修复。基于此语料，训练了一系列从4700万到3.49亿参数的纯解码器模型（decoder-only models），并测量其时间边界特性。结果表明，3.49亿参数模型相较于更大规模现代基线模型出现性能交叉点，1.07亿参数模型亦在同等规模下超越对比模型；原因在于后者因包含后1918年词汇，每字节多消耗约3.1比特，而本语料中的时期词汇编码效率更高。此外，模型能较好保持历史拼写规范，而基线模型则部分失真。参数量提升带来的增益约为二次数据遍历的两倍。研究开源了语料、代码与模型权重，但提醒用户注意：模型会复现历史偏见，包括反犹言论。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10592
作者: Szymon Kocur
机构: Independent Researcher(独立研究员); Poland(波兰)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
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Abstract:Historical Polish is well documented as a language but annotated in machine-readable form only to about a million words for the period this paper covers; the rest sits behind optical character recognition of variable quality. We present Wieszcz-XIX, a corpus of 6.75 billion tokens (about 3.1 billion words) in 294,369 documents, most of them periodical issues, of Polish published from 1800 to 1918, assembled from Wolne Lektury and the Internet Archive by a pipeline that filters, deduplicates, audits for post-1918 leakage and splits at the document level. It is over three orders of magnitude larger than the annotated corpus of the same period, and we quantify its defects: recognition corruption against a false-positive floor, near-identical duplication, which is removed, and post-1918 leakage, which is excluded from the training corpus itself down to a known residue of 0.04 to 0.38% of its bytes, found in the transcribed source, so the published corpus is the trained one document for document. On a hand-corrected sample the character error rate is 0.68% where the text is legible, and 45% of the sampled passages cannot be corrected. On it we train a ladder of decoder-only models from 47M to 349M parameters from scratch, and measure their temporal boundedness. Against two modern Polish base models, one far larger, the 349M shows a crossover, as does the 107M against the comparator of its size: post-1918 vocabulary costs them about 3.1 bits per byte more than period vocabulary, a gap the comparators do not show, and period vocabulary costs them fewer bits than it costs the comparators. Shown period text, the models keep its spelling and the comparators only partly. Adding parameters gains about twice as much as a second pass over the data. We release the corpus, code and weights. Content warning: the models reproduce period prejudice, including antisemitic statements.
[NLP-133] Diffu-LoRA: A Novel Low-Rank Adaptation for Personalized Diffusion Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决从少量参考图像中个性化文本到图像扩散模型时，如何在保持主体身份一致性的同时准确遵循描述新场景的提示（prompt）这一关键问题。现有方法如全模型微调参数开销大，而低秩适应（LoRA）虽降低了可训练参数量，但未明确如何在各网络层间分配适应能力。为此，本文提出Diffu-LoRA，一种基于门控低秩适应的参数高效方法，其核心在于通过双层优化学习各层适配容量的非均匀分配策略。具体而言，Diffu-LoRA在Transformer块的线性层中插入可训练的低秩组件，并为每个组件配置可学习的门控参数；利用双层优化分别在不同数据子集上更新适配权重与门控参数，再结合渐进式剪枝移除门控值最低的组件以满足预设秩预算。该方法在不更新预训练主干网络的前提下，实现自适应的、非均匀的适配能力分布。在Stable Diffusion上的实验表明，相较于多种基线微调方法，Diffu-LoRA在主体保真度和提示对齐性方面均有显著提升。消融研究进一步验证了双层优化、渐进剪枝及适配器位置设计的有效性，证明学习型秩分配是实现高效扩散模型个性化的可行且有效路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10550
作者: Tianjing Li,Wei Zhu
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Personalizing text-to-image diffusion models from a few reference images requires preserving subject identity while following prompts that describe new contexts. Full-model fine-tuning is parameter-intensive, whereas low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduces the number of trainable parameters but leaves open how adaptation capacity should be distributed across layers. We introduce Diffu-LoRA, a parameter-efficient method that learns this allocation through gated low-rank adaptation. Diffu-LoRA inserts trainable low-rank components into the linear layers of Transformer blocks and assigns a learnable gate to each component. Bilevel optimization updates the adaptation weights and gate parameters on separate data splits, while progressive pruning removes components with the lowest gate values to meet a prescribed rank budget. This procedure allocates adaptation capacity nonuniformly across layers while keeping the pretrained backbone frozen. Experiments with Stable Diffusion on subjects from DreamBooth and additional collected datasets show improved overall subject fidelity and prompt alignment relative to the evaluated fine-tuning baselines. Ablation studies examine the contributions of bilevel optimization, progressive pruning, and adapter placement. These results support learned rank allocation as a practical approach to parameter-efficient diffusion model personalization.
[NLP-134] An Explainable Header-Centric Framework for Large-Scale Semantic Table Interpretation and Data Quality Assessment ESWC2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在缺乏单元格数值信息的“仅元数据语义表解析”（metadata-only Semantic Table Interpretation, STI）场景下，如何基于列标题（column headers）实现高质量、可解释的列类型标注（Column Type Annotation, CTA）与数据质量评估（Data Quality Assessment, DQA）的问题。其核心挑战在于：当表中实际数据不可用或存在噪声时，列标题成为唯一可用的语义线索，需在此基础上构建可信的知识图谱（Knowledge Graph, KG）。为此，论文提出一种以列标题为中心的可解释框架，通过利用经过精心筛选的词汇资源将列标题映射至39种可解释的最终格式类型（FinalFormat），并引入源关键词（SourceKeywords）实现细粒度的词级溯源追踪。每个类型激活基于数据质量问题（Data Quality Issues, DQIs）分类体系的验证规则，从而检测缺失数据、重复项、领域违规、类型错误及时间不匹配等典型问题。这些检测结果被聚合为一个轻量级、无权重的数据源级别质量指标——HeadersIQ，用于衡量数据源整体质量。该框架在涵盖UCI、Prague、Kaggle、VizNet/Sato、SOTAB、T2Dv2以及SemTab 2024元数据到知识图谱赛道等十余个异构基准的约12万列标题上进行了评估，展现出对真实世界噪声元数据的广泛适用性。同时，其支持与DBpedia等知识库的对齐，并在SemTab 2024官方严格评估中表现中等；但通过盲测诊断审计发现，多数不一致现象主要源于基准数据的粒度差异、别名处理及本体选择等因素，而非预测本身不可靠。因此，研究将此诊断结果作为对分歧模式的分析证据，而非修正基准性能。总体而言，该工作提供了一套可复用的元数据驱动语义标注、数据源级质量监控及面向知识图谱的基准诊断流程。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10541
作者: Marcelo Valentim Silva,Hannes Herrmann,Valerie Maxville
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Knowledge Graph (KG) quality depends not only on downstream graph validation, but also on the quality of tabular metadata used before integration. In metadata-only Semantic Table Interpretation (STI), where cell values are unavailable, noisy, or unsuitable, column headers become a critical source of semantic evidence for traceable KG preparation. We present an explainable, header-centric framework for metadata-only Column Type Annotation (CTA) and Data Quality Assessment (DQA). The framework maps headers to 39 interpretable FinalFormat types using curated lexical resources and preserves token-level traceability through SourceKeywords. Each assigned type activates validation rules based on a taxonomy of Data Quality Issues (DQIs), producing detections such as missing data, duplicates, domain violations, wrong data type, and temporal mismatch. These detections are aggregated into HeadersIQ, a lightweight, unweighted data source-level quality metric. The framework was evaluated across heterogeneous benchmarks, including UCI, Prague, Kaggle, VizNet/Sato, SOTAB, T2Dv2, and the SemTab 2024 Metadata-to-KG track, comprising around 120,000 header columns. The results show broad practical coverage across noisy real-world metadata, while a parallel KG-mapping pathway supports alignment to DBpedia and this http URL. On the SemTab 2024 Metadata-to-KG track, the official GT-strict evaluation was modest. However, a blinded diagnostic audit indicates that many mismatches reflect benchmark granularity, aliasing, and ontology-selection effects rather than wholly implausible header-centric predictions. We report this audit as diagnostic evidence on disagreement patterns, not as revised benchmark performance. Overall, the paper presents a reusable workflow for metadata-driven semantic annotation, data source-level quality monitoring, and KG-oriented benchmark diagnosis. Comments: 18 pages, 4 figures, Workshop on Quality of Knowledge Graphs at ESWC 2026, May 11, 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10541 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2610.10541v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10541 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
[NLP-135] SteerablePlex: Can We Steer Full-Duplex Models?
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决全双工语音模型（full-duplex speech models）在长期对话中难以保持对对话场景和多阶段目标顺序的控制问题，尤其在作为用户模拟器（user simulator）时，易因缺乏指令遵循能力而偏离预设场景，导致评估结果不可靠。其核心解决方案是提出一种基于分组奖励解耦归一化策略优化（Group Reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization, GDPO）的训练方法，使全双工模型能够在对话进行中有效遵循文本指令，同时维持自然的发言权交替能力。通过将所训练的可调控模型SteerablePlex与异步后端语言模型结合，后者实时监控对话并按需提供指导指令，构建了一个更具可控性的全双工用户模拟器，显著提升了对多阶段约束条件的遵循能力，优于现有开源模型及GPT-Realtime。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12201
作者: Haolong Zheng,Maike Züfle,Dominik Macháček,Peter Polák,Xulin Fan,Xavier Sumba,Siyin Wang,Ondřej Klejch,Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
机构: 未知
类目: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 5 pages, 2 figures
Abstract:Full-duplex speech models can listen and speak simultaneously, enabling natural interaction, but become increasingly difficult to control as the conversation history grows. When used as user simulators, this lack of control can cause them to deviate from prescribed scenarios and produce unreliable evaluation outcomes. We introduce SimIF-Bench (Simulator Instruction-Following Benchmark), which evaluates whether a conversational model stays within a prescribed scenario and completes multiple goals in the required order. The benchmark reveals that current open-source full-duplex models struggle to follow such constraints. We then introduce a Group Reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization (GDPO)-based training recipe that enables a full-duplex model to follow textual instructions during an ongoing conversation while maintaining its turn-taking ability. By connecting the resulting SteerablePlex to an asynchronous backend language model that monitors the conversation and provides instructions when needed, we build a more controllable full-duplex user simulator that follows multi-stage constraints more reliably than existing open-source models and GPT-Realtime.
[NLP-136] Conversational Voice Aesthetic Model with Reinforcement Learning from Human Listeners
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决语音美学（voice aesthetics）在真实或合成语音响应中的客观描述难题，尤其针对情感（emotion）、表达方式（delivery）等具有高度主观性的感知维度缺乏明确标注基准的问题。其核心挑战在于如何将人类对语音美感的主观判断有效建模并转化为可计算的评估体系。解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于人类感知的对齐框架：首先从CANDOR语料库中选取3000个真实与合成语音样本，每样本收集约10份人工标注以获取多样化的美学描述与标签；随后利用合成的美学描述与标签对模型进行监督微调，并通过组相对策略优化（Group Relative Policy Optimization）进一步基于人类评判结果进行强化学习优化。实验表明，该模型在与人类听者的一致性上优于Gemini 3.1 Pro及开源语音大模型，且超越单一人类评价者与其他人的平均一致性水平。研究证明了将语音美学建模根植于人类感知的重要性，并提出了一套系统性的、面向人类对齐的语音美学评估框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10868
作者: Xilin Jiang,Shun Zhang,Tejas Jayashankar,Yinghao Aaron Li,Osama Hanna
机构: Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学); Meta Superintelligence Labs(Meta 超智能实验室); Menlo Park, CA, USA(门洛帕克, 加利福尼亚州, 美国)
类目: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM); Sound (cs.SD)
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Abstract:We introduce Conversational Voice Aesthetic Model, a speech large language model for describing the voice aesthetics of real or synthetic speech responses in natural conversational contexts. Given a context and a response speech, CVAM describes salient moments that characterize the voice and predicts nine categorical attributes spanning gender, pitch, pacing, emotion, and delivery. The key challenge lies in perceptual fields such as emotion and delivery, which are inherently subjective and lack definitive ground truth. Therefore, we collect ~10 human annotations for each of 3k real and synthetic responses derived from the CANDOR corpus. CVAM is supervised finetuned on synthesized aesthetic descriptions and labels, then optimized with Group Relative Policy Optimization on human judgments. Experiments show that CVAM better agrees with human listeners than Gemini 3.1 Pro and open-source speech LLMs, and outperforms single-human-vs.-rest agreement. Together, we demonstrate the importance of grounding voice aesthetics in human perception and propose a principled framework for human alignment.
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[IR-0] Compact and Efficient Indexes for Learned Sparse Retrieval ICDE2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12300
作者: Franco Maria Nardini,Luca Rizzo,Cosimo Rulli,Rossano Venturini
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Databases (cs.DB)
备注: 15 pages, 2 figures. Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2027 (IEEE ICDE 2027)
Abstract:This paper investigates how to substantially reduce the memory footprint of learned sparse retrieval indexes without sacrificing the efficiency of state-of-the-art retrieval data structures. Building on SEISMIC, we revisit both levels of its design: the inverted index used to select candidates and the forward index used to score them. For the inverted index, we replace costly per-block summaries with medoids, namely existing documents elected as block representatives, collapsing the per-block metadata from a sparse vector to a single document identifier. For the forward index, we compress both components and values. We reorder the vocabulary to place co-occurring components closer together and encode the resulting \Delta -gaps with DOTPACKING8, a SIMD-friendly bit-packing scheme that fuses decompression with dot-product evaluation; values are quantized with compact per-component 4-bit codebooks fitted to each component’s distribution. We further introduce JUMPDOT, a blocked dot-product kernel tailored for queries that contain only a few non-zero entries. Our forward-index compression is independent of SEISMIC and can be plugged into any system relying on forward-index-based scoring, as we demonstrate by integrating it into KANNOLO. A comprehensive evaluation on MS MARCO with three state-of-the-art learned sparse encoders shows that our solutions markedly improve the speed-space trade-off of learned sparse retrieval: at equal accuracy, our indexes answer queries up to 5.3x faster than the best competitor while using about 3x less memory, and in the most memory-constrained regime, they remain up to 1.9x faster while using up to 3.9x less memory.
[IR-1] Syn-Omni: Structured Specialization and Progressive Collaboration for Omnimodal Embeddings EMNLP2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12256
作者: Youngtaek Oh,Qiyu Wu,Hiromi Wakaki,Junmo Kim,Yuki Mitsufuji
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: Accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Long, Findings). Code: this https URL
Abstract:Omnimodal embeddings naturally involve both shared representations and modality-specific features across heterogeneous inputs. However, existing omnimodal embedding methods often rely on a single shared parameter space over mixed-modality data, limiting structural separation between universal and modality-specific representations. To address this, we propose Syn-Omni, a unified framework for structured omnimodal adaptation with modality specialization and controlled cross-modal collaboration. Specifically, we introduce Orthogonal Modality-Expert LoRA (OME-LoRA), which decomposes adaptation into a shared LoRA path for universal semantics and modality-expert LoRA paths for modality-aware specialization. Furthermore, Progressive Synergy Routing (PSR) enables experts to first establish modality-specific priors, then gradually interact with other modality-experts for cross-modal synergy. Evaluated across 81 diverse tasks spanning image, video, audio, and audiovisual modalities, Syn-Omni consistently outperforms omnimodal baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of structured specialization and cross-modal progressive collaboration.
[IR-2] NativeScope: Relation-Localized Retrieval over Native Topology with a Correct Anchor
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12243
作者: Long Wang
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 14 pages, 4 figures, and 6 tables. Includes an appendix with reproduction information and an evidence inventory
Abstract:Dense retrieval usually ranks text chunks by their semantic similarity to a question. This ignores structure that many data systems already store, including section membership, session boundaries, and native order. We propose NativeScope, a scope-then-rank method for queries with a known anchor and relation. It represents a query as q - (A, r, B). The anchor A and relation r select native units through belonging, before, or after operators, and the target term B ranks only chunks that overlap the selected scope. An internal variant, NS-FullQ, ranks the same candidates with the full question. We evaluate both methods on 200 controlled document and memory records derived from QASPER and LongMemEval under a 1,024-token budget. NativeScope attains native-unit recall of 89.28 percent for documents and 72.50 percent for memories, improving over instance-wide Dense RAG by 42.75 and 22.00 percentage points. NS-FullQ reaches 87.78 percent and 68.50 percent; its differences from NativeScope are inconclusive, locating the primary gain in relational scoping rather than the shorter ranking query. With automatic Top-1 anchors, memory recall falls to 35.50 percent. NativeScope is therefore effective when anchor coordinates and native relations are reliable, but hard scoping inherits errors from the localization interface.
[IR-3] Project Greenhouse: Progress Toward Fully Open and Sovereign Agent ic Search
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11922
作者: Jimmy Lin,Sahel Sharifymoghaddam,Lingwei Gu,Nour Jedidi
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Project Greenhouse represents our exploration of a simple thesis: We believe that it is possible to build fully open and sovereign models for agentic search with only modest computational resources. As a first milestone, we describe how to build a competitive pointwise decoder-only reranker using a simple two-step recipe comprising pre-training from scratch followed by supervised fine-tuning, starting only from commonly available datasets. Contrary to the dominant approach in the literature, we do not rely on existing open-weight backbones from third parties, and thus we are fully in control of model training, from end to end. We were able to accomplish the bulk of our experiments using no more than a handful of GPUs. This report articulates the importance and benefits of our approach, and we share artifacts that enable transparent, independent reproduction of all aspects of model training. Beyond data, code, and configurations that capture our efforts, we also release checkpoints for our family of Gaggle models, demonstrating the feasibility of our approach and providing a first step toward validating our broader thesis.
[IR-4] Chaos in the Text: Revealing the Modality Preference in Mixed-Modality Retrievers
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11816
作者: Yubo Sun,Chunyi Peng,Yukun Yan,Zhenghao Liu,Zhipeng Xu,Sen Mei,Linlin Xin,Zheni Zeng,Maosong Sun
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: Code: this https URL
Abstract:Dense retrievers have made significant progress on text and image corpora, but whether these capabilities extend reliably to mixed corpora containing text, image, and fused text-image documents remains unclear. In this paper, we systematically examine retrievers across architectures and find that their performance is highly sensitive to modality composition. As image documents are progressively replaced with semantically corresponding text representations, retrieval performance follows a pronounced V-shaped curve, remaining strong on single-modality corpora but degrading substantially when modalities coexist. In particular, irrelevant text causes more severe degradation than an equal number of irrelevant images, a phenomenon we term Chaos in the Text. Further analysis reveals modality preference, whereby text representations receive systematically higher similarity scores, allowing irrelevant text to outrank relevant images. To mitigate this bias, we introduce Trident, which constructs text, image, and fused text-image views of each document as co-equal positives and jointly optimizes relevance discrimination and positive-view balance through Multi-Positive View InfoNCE. Experiments across visual document and natural image benchmarks show that trident improves mixed-modality retrieval on both CLIP-based and VLM-based architectures, reduces sensitivity to modality composition and text distractors, and increases average single-modality retrieval performance.
[IR-5] Autoregressive Retriever: Improving Query Understanding from Item Feedback for Universal Multimodal Retrieval
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11666
作者: Jianfei Zhao,Yifan Wang,Feng Zhang,Xin Sun,Chong Feng,Zhixing Tan,Yang Luo,Boyuan Pan,Xu Kai,Yao Hu
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Under Review
Abstract:Universal multimodal retrieval typically encodes a query once and ranks independently indexed items by embedding similarity. This design supports efficient search, but leaves the query representation unchanged even when retrieved items could help clarify the information need. We introduce the AutoRegressive Retriever (ARR), a multimodal retrieval model that learns both to select informative items and to use their content to refine subsequent retrieval. ARR alternates between retrieving an item and updating the query embedding, then uses the final embedding to rank the collection. Supervised fine-tuning teaches the encoder to use feedback through stepwise contrastive supervision. Reinforcement learning treats feedback items as actions and optimizes their selection using the final reciprocal rank of a relevant item. A query-side adapter enables this optimization against a fixed item index. ARR demonstrates strong retrieval performance on both in-domain and zero-shot benchmarks, outperforming the compared baselines on average. Further analyses show that feedback improves retrieval at inference time and that training with feedback also improves the initial query embedding, before any item is observed.
[IR-6] SkillContrast: Difference-Guided Text Selection for Agent Skill Reranking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11650
作者: Jiandong Ding,Honglei Ji,Ming Liu,Tao Duan
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
Abstract:Similar agent skills can share instructions but differ in their conditions of use. Query-based text selection may retain shared instructions and omit these distinctions. We introduce SkillContrast, a training-free selector that compares retrieved skills and retains their differing text with local context for a pretrained reranker. On 1,235 requests from SameCapRisk-Bench, it yields 54-72 more clean hits (requests that retrieve a helpful skill without its marked risky sibling) than TF-IDF query selection at identical per-candidate input lengths, across 2 retrievers and 2 reranker sizes. Length-matched component replacements identify differing text as the main contributor in the primary setting, with smaller, mixed context effects. Relative to full skill bodies, SkillContrast uses 51.1-58.8% fewer model-input tokens, with 10-18 fewer clean hits at 0.6B and matching or higher observed clean-hit counts at 4B. Candidate-relative differences thus complement query relevance in selecting compact reranking inputs.
[IR-7] Overview of the NTCIR-19 Automatic Evaluation of LLM s 2 (AEOLLM -2) Task
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11598
作者: Junjie Chen,Yuxi Dong,Haitao Li,Yiqun Liu,Qingyao Ai
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: NTCIR-19
Abstract:In this paper, we provide an overview of the NTCIR-19 Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2 (AEOLLM-2) task. Building on the success of the NTCIR-18 core task AEOLLM, we proposed AEOLLM-2 for NTCIR-19 to further investigate automatic evaluation methods for Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in long-form text generation scenarios. In AEOLLM-2, we introduced a new subtask, Deep Research Evaluation, which focuses on the automatic evaluation of long-form deep research reports generated by LLMs. Participants developed evaluation methods to automatically assess the quality of these reports, and the performance of each method was measured by comparing its scores against human-annotated ground-truth labels. This year, we received 91 runs from 10 teams in total. This paper describes the background of the task, the dataset construction, the evaluation measures, the participants’ methods, and the final evaluation results.
[IR-8] EVIE: Evidence-Vector-Informed Embeddings for Visual Document Retrieval
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11553
作者: Zifei Wang,Wei Wen,Qiang Ji,Qian-Wen Zhang,Ruizhi Qiao,Xing Sun
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 22 pages, 8 figures
Abstract:Accurate and scalable visual document retrieval (VDR) requires both fine-grained page understanding and efficient indexing, yet existing approaches struggle to achieve both. OCR-based text retrieval adds preprocessing latency and can lose visual and structural cues needed to understand complex pages. Single-vector vision-language models bypass OCR, but compressing an entire page into one vector limits the granularity of query–document matching. Multi-vector retrievers with MaxSim provide finer interactions, yet demand large indexes and still leave room for accuracy improvements. We argue that overcoming these limitations requires preserving query-relevant page evidence throughout representation learning and index construction. To this end, we introduce \textbf\textitEVIE (Evidence-Vector-Informed Embeddings), a family of native visual document retrievers integrating three key innovations: (1) Evidence-judged data governance, which uses a multimodal judge to identify answer-bearing positives and filter unreliable negatives. (2) Bidirectional teacher–student learning with symmetric listwise distillation and prefix-based Matryoshka representation learning (Prefix-MRL), enabling one student checkpoint to serve six nested embedding dimensions without re-encoding. (3) Hierarchical agglomerative index compression (HAC), which clusters page tokens with spatial regularization and stores semantic centroids for single-stage MaxSim retrieval. Extensive experiments across 138 tasks from ViDoRe V1, V2, V3, and JinaVDR validate EVIE. EVIE-8B achieves 66.75 nDCG@10 on V3, exceeding the best external baseline by 1.43 points, with a four-suite average of 79.51. EVIE-4.5B with HAC retains 59.58 nDCG@10 at only 3.81 GiB per million pages, reducing vector payload by 128\times . Together, these results improve the accuracy–storage trade-off for visual document retrieval.
[IR-9] Compactness and Consistency: A Conjoint Framework for Deep Graph Clustering ICLR2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11506
作者: Wei Ju,Siyu Yi,Kangjie Zheng,Yifan Wang,Ziyue Qiao,Li Shen,Yongdao Zhou,Xiaochun Cao,Jiancheng Lv
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
备注: Accepted by Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026 Oral)
Abstract:Graph clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, aiming at grouping nodes with similar characteristics in the graph into clusters. This problem has been widely explored using graph neural networks (GNNs) due to their ability to leverage node attributes and graph topology for effective cluster assignments. However, representations learned through GNNs typically struggle to capture global relationships between nodes via local message-passing mechanisms. Moreover, the redundancy and noise inherently present in graph data may easily result in node representations lacking compactness and robustness. To address these issues, we propose a conjoint framework CoCo, which captures compactness and consistency in the learned node representations for deep graph clustering. Technically, our CoCo leverages graph convolutional filters to learn robust node representations from both local and global views, and then encodes them into low-rank compact embeddings, thus effectively removing the redundancy and noise as well as uncovering the intrinsic underlying structure. To further enrich the node semantics, we develop a consistency learning strategy based on compact embeddings to facilitate knowledge transfer from the two perspectives. Our experimental results indicate that our CoCo outperforms state-of-the-art counterparts on various datasets.
[IR-10] Beyond Resolution: Object-to-Image Ratio Mismatch in Instance Retrieval
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11489
作者: Boaz Meivar,Ofir Kedem,Amit Edenzon,Gal Chechik,Shai Avidan
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 24 pages. Preprint, under review
Abstract:Visual instance retrieval often fails when the same object appears at different apparent sizes in the query and gallery. We show that the dominant cause is usually not resolution loss but object-to-image (O2I) ratio mismatch: the object occupies different fractions of the two images. On a controlled benchmark of 3,021 Objaverse objects rendered at five camera distances, more than 80% of the cross-distance degradation is attributable to O2I mismatch rather than resolution for 9 of 12 pretrained backbones; multi-scale architectures cut the resolution-only effect to single digits yet remain equally susceptible. The failure is also asymmetric: tight queries retrieve more reliably against wide gallery images than the reverse. Guided by this analysis, query-side scale augmentation and an OWLv2 crop reranker reach state of the art on ILIAS 100M (29.2 mAP@1000 before reranking, 42.0 after) without training or modifying the precomputed gallery index, and a LoRA fine-tune matches the query-side gains at a single forward pass, showing that O2I robustness is learnable.
[IR-11] SAIL: Scientific Agent ic Intelligence via a Science-Aware Loop
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11451
作者: SAIL Model Team:Boyuan Sun,Bryan Dai,Che Liu,Chi Liu,Derek Li,Hongming Piao,Mengzhuo Chen,Xidong Wang,Yan Shu,Yinda Chen,Ziyang Zeng
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 16 pages, technical report
Abstract:We introduce SAIL, an open model with 35B total and 3B active parameters for literature research, scientific coding, and multi-step research workflows. SAIL is developed through a science-aware improvement loop: agents built on frontier AI models analyze its task failures and construct training tasks that address the underlying capability gaps. The diagnosis examines search and evidence selection in literature tasks, scientific assumptions and reasoning in coding, and planning and revision in longer investigations. The agents draw on paper collections and scientific code repositories to build problems, interaction trajectories, and executable tasks with the required environments and tools. We repeat this loop over multiple development cycles and train SAIL through supervised fine-tuning, specialist training, multi-teacher on-policy distillation, and agentic reinforcement learning. SAIL achieves competitive performance across scientific research tasks with substantially fewer parameters than leading open-weight models.
[IR-12] On-Chain Archaeology of Bitcoin Oracles: Evidence of Use under Limited Observability
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11439
作者: Giulio Caldarelli
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:Before Ethereum made the “oracle problem” a household term, Bitcoin already had oracles serving as feeds, key-release services, federated signers, and arbiters that carried real value on the main chain. This study traces their use and the changing evidence of oracle activity from early days through July 2026. We combine a complete census of Counterparty betting (1,149 bets), analysis of the full Bitcoin chain through block 958,628, and searches for documented keys from Reality Keys, Orisi, Bitrated, and Oraclize in an 854-million-row public-key index. We also recover DLC oracle records from an archived explorer and live Nostr relays. Two results emerge. First, early contracts remain on-chain, but many event descriptions have disappeared, and protocol encoding and API limitations complicate access to the surviving record. However, for modern DLCs, public oracle announcements can survive even when the contracts using them cannot be identified on-chain. In the script classes examined, the share of spends that reveal no script peaks at 81.9% in 2024 after excluding spends containing inscription data. Second, public registries can give a misleading picture of oracle use. In Counterparty, 95% of pre-2018 sources declaring an oracle fee were never bet on. In Bitrated, 0.1% of archived keys appear on-chain overall, compared with 10 of 19 keys captured in 2014. Sport dominates Counterparty’s matched volume, while a daily price series dominates the archived DLC announcements. These findings show how protocol design and data preservation shape the historical record of Bitcoin oracle use.
[IR-13] RIT-RAG : Navigating Document Corpora with Retrieval-Induced Trees
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11370
作者: Meghanadh Pulivarthi,Swaraj Kumar Biswal,Kushagra Bhushan,Yatin Nandwani,Sachindra Joshi,Dinesh Raghu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 24 pages (main text through Limitations ends on page 9, followed by references and appendix), 9 figures, 16 tables
Abstract:Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds language models in external corpora. Agentic RAG enables iterative search, yet exposes the model to isolated chunks without document structure, making it difficult to distinguish relevant evidence from chunks that merely resemble the query. Structure-aware methods such as PageIndex navigate document structure but cannot scale to the structures of large corpora, which do not fit in the LLM context. Hence, they first commit to a single document using a document retriever and cannot recover from a wrong choice. We propose RIT-RAG (Retrieval-Induced Tree RAG), which combines content retrieval with structural navigation. Offline, RIT-RAG builds a tree for each document from its table of contents or sitemap. At query time, it retrieves a broad set of chunks and uses their positions to induce manageable sub-trees, potentially across multiple documents. An LLM agent navigates these sub-trees, selectively reads promising nodes, and reformulates queries when needed. Thus, retrieval proposes where to look, while the agent decides what to read. Across financial, scientific, and customer-support benchmarks, RIT-RAG achieves the highest answer accuracy among vanilla, graph-based, and agentic baselines. On EntQABench, our new benchmark of 2.84 million technical-documentation webpages, it improves accuracy by 6.8 to 11.4 points over the strongest baseline across three LLMs.
[IR-14] H2CE: Modeling Geo-Semantic Interactions for POI Reranking with Heterogeneous Two-Stage Cross-Encoders
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11277
作者: Zhengwei Bai,Moreno D’Incà,Danielle Class,Alessandro Moschitti
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:Point-of-Interest (POI) reranking in local search must model query-conditioned tradeoffs among lexical semantics, geospatial proximity, and numerical quality signals such as rating and review count, while remaining practical under real-time serving constraints. A close POI may only partially satisfy the query intent, while a farther one may offer stronger semantic and quality evidence. We present H2CE, a Heterogeneous Two-stage Cross-Encoder for latency-bounded POI reranking. H2CE represents numerical attributes in two complementary ways: bucketized natural-language descriptors are inserted into the cross-encoder input to support semantic–numeric attention, while exact scalar values are processed by dedicated MLPs to preserve magnitude information. The resulting semantic and numerical embeddings are fused through latent-space aggregation, enabling nonlinear interactions beyond scalar weighted sums. H2CE then applies a two-stage architecture: Stage 1 scores all candidates pointwise for scalable filtering, and Stage 2 performs head-to-head pairwise comparison among the top- K candidates with Copeland aggregation, making fine-grained relative tradeoffs explicit while reducing pairwise cost from O(N^2) to O(N+K(K-1)). On a 5,743-query local search test set, H2CE achieves 67.48% NDCG@5, improving over XGBoost LTR by +22.82% absolute and over a zero-shot LLM reranker by +35.89%. The pairwise stage adds +1.98% NDCG@5 over the pointwise model alone. Ablations confirm the value of numerical features, latent aggregation, top-K pairwise reranking, and aligned training.
[IR-15] Gated Memory: Admission-Controlled Memory Formation for Conversational AI
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11270
作者: Preeti Saraswat,Divya Neelagiri,Ajay Manoj
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Personalized conversational AI relies on long-term memory systems that extract facts from user utterances and store them in persistent vector stores. Despite progress in retrieval, deduplication, and lifecycle management, the formation stage, the moment a fact is first written to storage has received almost no principled attention. We identify this as the binding constraint on memory quality in production systems. Critical contextual signals, such as the distinction between a permanent user attribute and a transient situation, exist only in the original utterance and are irreversibly lost the moment extraction produces a subject-relation-object triple. No downstream process can recover them. We propose Gated Memory, a lightweight, modular formation framework that interposes two decision checkpoints between conversation and storage: an admission gate that evaluates every candidate fact against the full utterance context before extraction runs, and a conditional enrichment stage that grounds admitted facts through an entity scope taxonomy with privacy constraints. The gate evaluates only the current exchange while using prior turns as read-only reference context, and produces a structured formation record. Admitted content is decomposed into atomic facts, each categorized, tagged with provenance (directly stated versus inferred), scoped to its condition of applicability, and grounded in resolved time and place, subject to a constraint that no entity absent from the context may be asserted. On the LoCoMo-10 benchmark with atypical emotional density in utterance data, Gated Memory achieves an overall +2.6% relative improvement in LLM-judge accuracy over a strong baseline with identical retrieval and generation, establishing formation quality as a measurable constraint on memory performance.
[IR-16] Learning Multi-Step Query Rewriting via Corpus Feedback for Conversational Search
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10955
作者: João Coelho,Hong Wang,Jie Yuan,Zhuoer Wang,Samson Koelle,Wei Niu
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:Conversational Query Rewriting (CQR) turns a context dependent user turn into a standalone query for a retriever, and most methods do this in a single step from the dialogue history before retrieving once. The rewrite is therefore fixed before any corpus evidence is available to correct its reference resolution or its vocabulary. We recast CQR as a sequential retrieval problem: an agent rewrites the current turn, retrieves, and conditions its next rewrite on the returned passages. The agent acts in a typed space of three rewriting operations, resolving conversational intent into a standalone query, generating lexical reformulations, or synthesizing pseudo-documents for document-to-document matching, together with a stop action that ends the episode. We train the policy with supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning against a single retrieval-quality reward, using no human rewrite annotations. Across TopiOCQA and QReCC, the agent outperforms several retrieval-aligned baselines, while remaining effective across retrieval backends and generalizing to the CAsT benchmarks without additional training. Further analysis shows that, through retrieval-reward optimization alone, the learned policy develops a behavior of grounding pseudo-documents in passages retrieved by earlier steps, substantially improving retrieval.
[IR-17] Language Models for Page-Level Layout Decisions in E-commerce Search RECSYS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10920
作者: Varun Joshi,Eva C. Song,ChengXiang Zhai
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: Accepted at the OARS Workshop, ACM RecSys 2026
Abstract:E-commerce search pages are critical touchpoints for millions of online shoppers. While traditional search engines return a ranked list of results, modern E-commerce search pages increasingly incorporate recommender system modules – for example, secondary stacks that surface alternative product groupings at specific positions. When introduced appropriately, secondary stacks can improve user engagement; however, suboptimal placement may disrupt browsing flow and degrade the primary results. Unlike traditional search ranking, where evaluation techniques such as interleaving are well established, evaluating page-level layout changes e.g., when and where to insert a secondary stack remains challenging without costly online A/B testing. To address this, we study offline methods for evaluating whether a given layout decision – specifically, the inclusion of a secondary stack at a particular position – is beneficial to users. We investigate language models as scalable evaluators by comparing direct prompt-based, prompt-derived feature, and representation-based methods. Our results show that representation-based approaches consistently outperform prompt-based judging in predicting user engagement, suggesting they provide a reliable foundation for offline layout evaluation in E-commerce search.
[IR-18] LIFT: A Lifecycle-aware Interaction Factorization Transformer for Unified Retrieval and Ranking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10556
作者: Keji Miao,Enhao Cheng,Yan Li,Qun Li,Qi Zhang,Jie Yuan,Xiaoyong Li
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 16 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables
Abstract:Cascaded recommender systems use the same user history for retrieval and ranking, while the two stages have access to different information at different points of an interaction. We propose the Lifecycle-aware Interaction Factorization Transformer (LIFT), which decomposes each interaction into ordered Request, Item, Context, and Action states and models them as a causal sequence. Retrieval reads the Request state, while ranking reads the Context state, allowing both tasks to share history modeling while preserving stage-specific information. LIFT instantiates this representation with Role-Conditioned Attention and a lightweight Pre-LN Bias. On ML-20M and Taobao, LIFT achieves the highest Joint Score among the evaluated joint models, improving over the strongest baselines by 4.9% and 3.6%, respectively. Loss-weight sweeps show favorable retrieval–ranking trade-offs, while ablations and scaling analyses further examine lifecycle sequence construction, model components, and capacity settings.
人机交互
[HC-0] Hybrid Cinematography: Previsualizing and Managing Hallucination Risk in Generative Video Reshooting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12455
作者: Nhan(Nathan)Tran,Neal Wadhwa,Abe Davis,Stefan Stojanov
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:On a film set, the camera move is committed during a take. Generative video reshooting lets filmmakers change it afterward, but may require hallucinating unrecorded content, a gap sometimes discovered only after leaving the set. We present Hybrid Cinematography, a workflow that bridges physical capture and generative reshooting to manage hallucination risk while filmmakers can still act on it. Using an editable 3D shot plan and a proxy of the take, our previsualization evaluates hallucination risk in real time. Seeing where the take lacks support, filmmakers can iteratively adjust the plan, explore moves that balance capture and generation, shoot guided pickups, or knowingly accept hallucination. We demonstrate the workflow through a mobile augmented reality application for on-set planning, capture, and review, and an offline pipeline for existing video. A study with experienced filmmakers reveals how previsualizing risk informs camera decisions and exposes tensions between creative intent and generative hallucination.
[HC-1] “Hot-Blooded” vs “Cold-Blooded”: Simulating the Behavioral Phenotypes of Childhood Aggression via Generative Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11951
作者: Liping Fu
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 25 pages, 5 tables, 4 figures
Abstract:This study examines the construct validity of LLM-based generative agents in simulating reactive, proactive, and co-occurring aggression in children. Four distinct agents were instantiated using a theory-driven parameterization grounded in the social information processing model. A total of 1,920 simulation runs were conducted across eight social scenarios, employing a hybrid blind-coding pipeline to extract 32 quantitative behavioral indicators. Results demonstrate robust discriminant validity relative to a non-aggressive baseline, with large effect sizes. High cross-seed reliability confirms that behavioral differentiation is driven by underlying psychological parameters rather than model stochasticity. Qualitative narrative analyses further converged with established empirical literature. Overall, these findings indicate that theory-parameterized LLM agents can accurately reproduce distinct aggression subtypes, offering a scalable, highly controllable framework for hypothesis generation, intervention piloting, and the refinement of psychological measurement tools.
[HC-2] From Surface to Depth: Towards Cognitive Appraisal Reasoning in Multimodal Emotion Understanding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11918
作者: Jia Li,Yichao He,Yangchen Yu,Qiankun Li,Xinyi Li,Baiyi Ye,Zhenzhen Hu,Richang Hong,Erik Cambria
类目: Multimedia (cs.MM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 34 pages, 10 figures, Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly incorporate explainable reasoning for emotion understanding. However, reasoning based mainly on observable affective cues can reduce emotion understanding to superficial cue-label associations, giving rise to the Clever Hans effect. Such shortcuts become unreliable when affective cues are implicit, conflicting across modalities, linguistically misleading, or obscured by redundant details. In contrast, human emotions are shaped by how individuals interpret and evaluate surrounding events beyond observable cues. Inspired by appraisal theories of emotion, we formulate multimodal emotion understanding as a progression from perception to cognitive appraisal, and introduce a dataset, a model, and a benchmark to support this novel paradigm. CogEmo-40K is a large-scale instruction-tuning dataset constructed through a perception-to-appraisal pipeline to elicit evidence-grounded reasoning across six cognitive appraisal dimensions underlying emotion. CogEmo-MoE is a compact sparse MLLM that introduces interleaved MoE blocks for appraisal-specific adaptation, enabling effective appraisal reasoning at a substantially smaller scale than typical emotion MLLMs. CogEmo-Bench introduces an Appraisal Evidence Quality Score (AEQS) to assess cognitive-affective understanding across six complementary appraisal dimensions, addressing the limitation of conventional emotion metrics that evaluate what emotion is predicted but not why it arises. Extensive experiments show that our paradigm not only leads CogEmo-Bench, but also exhibits strong cross-domain generalization. Our findings suggest that perception-to-appraisal reasoning can move beyond surface-level cue-label associations toward more reliable multimodal emotion understanding and closer cognitive alignment between MLLMs and humans.
[HC-3] STcubeOperator: A Framework for Analyzing Spatiotemporal Event Data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11894
作者: Julius Rauscher,Lucas Joos,Mark Rohonyi,Daniel A. Keim,Maximilian T. Fischer
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 10 pages, 10 figures
Abstract:The analysis of spatiotemporal event data is essential for informed decision-making in domains such as disaster response, conflict analysis, or intelligence investigations. However, the complexity and interdependence of spatial, temporal, and multiple thematic attributes pose significant challenges for both analysis and visualization. While space-time cubes (STCs) present a powerful integrated visualization technique to analyze this kind of data, existing approaches often lack support for complex exploratory workflows, thus limiting the ability to derive meaningful insights. We address this gap by introducing STcubeOperator, a novel framework that models analysis tasks through space-time cube operations, considering them in context of visualizations, interactions, and computational choices, and implement them in an interactive visual analytics environment. By expressing analysis tasks as a sequence of multiple elementary operations–such as filtering, chopping, and flattening–our approach enables analysts to dynamically explore data from different perspectives. We further provide an open-source prototype implementing the operations in a 3D interactive environment to facilitate task-based exploratory analysis of spatiotemporal event data. We demonstrate the applicability of our framework with a case study based on real-world data on strategic and military operations in the Russia-Ukrainian War, showing its capabilities to reveal spatiotemporal patterns. An expert user study (n=8) shows how specific tasks can be solved with our framework, highlights the versatility of our approach, and provides valuable insights on which operations experienced analysts utilize in practice.
[HC-4] NeuroDivSim: An Interactive Tool for Model-Based Reflection on Cognitive Diversity in Interface Design
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11590
作者: Eske Beckefeld,Henrik H.J. Detjen
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Recent approaches to simulated and synthetic users offer new ways to support design, but raise questions about how computational representations of users should contribute to design practice. We present NeuroDivSim, an interactive tool that explores simulation as an inspectable mechanism for reflecting on cognitive diversity during design and prototyping. Rather than using an LLM to act as a simulated user, NeuroDivSim uses generative AI to construct inspectable task, interface, and environment models from a usage scenario. After human review, these models are combined with explicit cognitive reference configurations and processed through deterministic simulation. This enables designers to hold a modeled usage situation constant while varying cognitive assumptions and tracing their consequences to interaction steps and rule-based design recommendations. We further report an exploratory pilot evaluation (N=10) that provided formative insights into how participants engaged with the workflow and informed subsequent refinements to the presentation of models, simulation results, and recommendations.
[HC-5] Design Creativity Bench: Measuring creativity in LLM -Generated UI
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11539
作者: Aman Rusia,Abhijit Bhole,Prashank Gupta,Dipanjan Dey
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:As leading LLMs improve on capability evaluations, their limitations in producing creative outputs on design tasks remain insufficiently characterised. Our work introduces Design Creativity Bench, a benchmark that evaluates diversity and appropriateness in UI designs. It measures distinctiveness among models on the same prompt (originality), how much a model’s designs change between two prompts for the same UI goal in different product domains (creative range), and the share of a brief’s acceptance criteria each design meets (appropriateness). Originality is 0.592 for same-prompt design pairs from different models (95% CI [0.582, 0.602]), far below the 0.764 for same-prompt human-model pairs (95% CI [0.751, 0.778]). Creative range is 0.581 across models (95% CI [0.567, 0.597]), against 0.902 for human designs (95% CI [0.884, 0.919]). Appropriateness is above 90% for every model, and the best model reaches 99.2%, slightly above the 98.0% for human designs. Our work shows that the default output of LLMs, though generally appropriate, is substantially more repetitive than the human baseline. This calls for strong measures to address the issue.
[HC-6] SpheriColor: Colormaps for Spherical Geospatial Input Topographies IEEE-VIS
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11470
作者: Julius Rauscher,Johannes Fuchs,Daniel A. Keim,Frederik L. Dennig
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 4 Pages, 3 Figures, to be published in IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)
Abstract:Multivariate geospatial data visualization often relies on multiple coordinated views, where color can be used to either link views or encode data attributes. Encoding spatial locations through color can reveal patterns in non-spatial visualizations, yet most applications of colormaps focus on high-dimensional attribute encodings instead. While 2D colormaps have been studied extensively, color encodings designed for spherical geospatial data have received much less attention, even though all locations lie on a sphere. To address this, we propose SpheriColor, a colormap generation approach for mapping geospatial references guided by the design goals of distance preservation and colorspace exploitation. We project a geospatial distance function into a perceptually linear colorspace, followed by two different gamut-constrained optimization strategies. We perform a quantitative evaluation using both real-world and synthetic datasets, demonstrating superior performance over 2D colormaps and HSLuv double cone encodings. The simplex-based optimization excels at distance preservation, whereas the ray-based approach provides better colorspace exploitation.
[HC-7] Its Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11320
作者: Luca Cazzaniga
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 16 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables. Data and code: doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23224681
Abstract:Text-to-image models appear to reproduce the habits of the photographs they learned from. Analog clocks are an extreme case: in advertising, watches almost always show 10:10, and generated clocks return to 10:10 even when another time is requested. We measure this bias and test three ways of overcoming it on 52 models available on the Magnific platform, with a replication on Higgsfield. Every image shows three identical clocks that must show 2:35, 6:50 and 11:20. The description of the object is fixed and only the request about the time changes: no time (A), the time in digits (B), the hand positions described by construction relative to the dial numerals ©, or the same description plus a drawn reference dial (D). Two AI readers read all 1,799 images blind from coded copies, with a third reader and the author settling disagreements (dial-level agreement 96.0% and 97.3%). With no time requested, 67% of the images have all three clocks at 10:10. On the 20 current models, all three clocks are correct in 34% of the images with digits, 30% with the hands described in words and 75% with the reference dial (D-B: +37 points, 95% CI +28 to +45); we found no evidence that describing the hands in words beats the digits (C-B: -4 points, CI -10 to +1). The replication on the 12 models shared by both platforms gives the same picture (B 54%, C 50%, D 81%). Writing the time reduces the bias but leaves two thirds of the images of the 20 current models with at least one wrong clock; adding a drawn reference raises full accuracy to three quarters and almost eliminates images entirely at 10:10. We release all images, prompts, raw readings and a script that recomputes every result.
[HC-8] Magic Pen: Automatic Pen Mode Switching for Document Annotation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11255
作者: Kevin Desousa,Adam Bradley,Nathalie Henry Riche,Ken Hinckley,Christopher Collins
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: Technical report. 18 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables
Abstract:Traditional digital pen interfaces use menu buttons to change the pen mode, which results in time and cognitive load spent on round-trip interactions and mode errors from tapping small mode selection buttons. This work presents the Magic Pen, a technique which uses machine learning to automatically switch between digital pen modes without requiring explicit mode changes. Magic Pen is driven by an LSTM model trained on pen data collected from 27 participants across two studies and uses transfer learning to iteratively tune the model towards how a specific user annotates. Error mitigation techniques using a flick gesture or on-screen tap are incorporated to correct mode errors or remove a stroke quickly. We evaluated Magic Pen in a comparative study with 18 participants, followed by iterative improvements and a deployment study with 8 participants. Magic Pen was preferred compared to a conventional menu-based approach, and transfer learning allowed for greater model predictability and stability.
[HC-9] AP3D: Thermal-Assisted 3D Human Point Clouds
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11241
作者: Xie Zhang,Chengxiao Li,Xuan Liu,Chenshu Wu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Human body point clouds are a versatile representation for AI-enabled human sensing. However, existing methods using LiDAR, radar, and depth cameras suffer from inherent drawbacks in high cost, sparse reconstruction, and privacy concerns, etc. In this paper, we exploit low-cost thermal arrays and present TAP3D, the first system to reconstruct 3D human point clouds from body heat signatures, offering significant advantages in cost, density, human sensitivity, and privacy. To overcome major challenges in depth estimation, thermal interference, and multi-person separation, we propose a novel physics-informed design, which integrates a forward thermal physics model with two distinct modules: multi-primitive estimation for self-supervised joint recovery of depth and other thermal properties, and geometric perspective fusion for suppressing interference and disentangling multiple people. We implement TAP3D using a single commodity thermal array sensor and build a large-scale dataset (160K samples, 8 environments, 11 users) for evaluation. TAP3D achieves remarkable accuracy for dense point cloud generation, enabling downstream tasks like fall detection (91.46%), indoor tracking (21.86 cm MAE), and human mesh recovery (4.87 cm error). By transforming body heat into point clouds for the first time, TAP3D pioneers a new paradigm for privacy-first, fully passive human sensing for many applications. TAP3D is open-sourced at this https URL.
[HC-10] Intent Graph: Navigating the Analytical Reasoning Space for Exploratory Data Analysis
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11025
作者: Junran Yang,Shruti Badrish,Teanna Barrett,Leilani Battle
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is rarely open-ended in practice: analysts work from high-level domain questions toward the concrete analyses that can answer them, prioritizing directions with domain knowledge and prior hypotheses. Large language models (LLMs) can supply such knowledge, but their responses are unstructured, leaving analysts no way to see what has been explored, what is missing, or why one direction was chosen over another. We present DAG-EDA, a system that lets analysts and an LLM co-navigate the space of possible analyses through two linked structures. An intent graph, governed by a grammar of analytical intent, decomposes an ambiguous natural-language question into progressively concrete analysis tasks, keeping alternative framings open and letting analysts branch, backtrack, and compare paths. A multi-layered knowledge graph externalizes the LLM’s domain knowledge, linking domain concepts to the dataset variables that can measure them, so analysts can inspect and contest how their question is grounded in the data. Both graphs are constructed from only the dataset and the analyst’s question, and the analyses the analyst reaches are rendered as interactive dashboards. We illustrate the system through a usage scenario and describe a user study design for examining whether the system scaffold analysts’ reasoning and navigation.
[HC-11] Feeling Wistful: Reflecting on Scholarly Sensibilities with Creative Reading Traces
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10890
作者: Sophia W. Liu,Kate Chier,Shm Garanganao Almeda,Max Kreminski,Bjoern Hartmann
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Researchers often read before they can articulate what they are looking for. As AI increasingly mediates scholarly search and synthesis, understanding and preserving the idiosyncratic judgments guiding early exploration become important. We call these evolving orientations scholarly sensibilities. To understand curiosity-driven reading, we first examined Wikipedia rabbitholing, a self-directed browsing practice, then designed Wistful, a research probe for open-ended scholarly exploration that captures reading paths as creative reading traces. We studied Wistful with 16 HCI researchers—eight junior and eight senior—in comparison with their usual workflows. Researchers approached the same scholarly landscape differently, with familiarity and personal interests shaping what they pursued and semantic proximity and scholarly links shaping their paths. Their traces made these differences visible and let readers revisit and compare their paths. We position creative reading traces as artifacts for reflection and exchange and as a means of studying how scholarly sensibilities are expressed through reading.
[HC-12] Guided Reflection for Personal Sleep Insight in Everyday Sleep Tracking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10822
作者: Bokyung Kim,Amama Mahmood,Honghao Zhao,Molly E. Atwood,Luis F. Buenaver,Ziang Xiao,Chien-Ming Huang
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Digital sleep technologies make tracking accessible, yet users often struggle to interpret what changes in their sleep mean. Behavioral sleep medicine addresses this through guided discovery, helping patients develop personal interpretations rather than simply receiving explanations. To bring this to everyday tracking, we present DREAM, an LLM-powered voice assistant that monitors conversational sleep diaries, selectively invites users to interpret meaningful changes, and uses their interpretation to tailor subsequent education. We co-designed DREAM with sleep specialists iteratively and evaluated it in a six-week field study (N=14) against a generic-education control. DREAM participants reported greater personal sleep insight, motivation, and willingness to use the system, and described a clearer rationale for trying strategies. Our findings suggest that guided reflection made participants more active interpreters of their own sleep. Furthermore, we argue that expert involvement is not a single transfer of knowledge but an ongoing process of making tacit judgment explicit and testable.
[HC-13] Improving social media for democratic discourse
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10816
作者: Fan Cheng,Amirhossein Farzmahdi,Pinyuan Feng,Kedar Garzón Gupta,Trenton Jerde,Nikolaus Kriegeskorte,Zi Qi Liow,Akihito Maruya,Savannah Smith,Patrick Stinson,JohnMark Taylor
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 55 pages. White paper presenting a modular set of mechanisms for designing social media to support democratic discourse
Abstract:Social media have expanded opportunities for communication and political participation, but today’s dominant platforms are optimized primarily for engagement and advertising revenue, contributing to concerns about polarization, misinformation, social isolation, and loss of civility. We explore how social media might instead be deliberately designed to support democratic discourse, collective deliberation, and collective intelligence. Drawing on literature across computer science, psychology, political science, and related fields, we present a modular collection of mechanisms that could be implemented individually or in combination. These include user-controlled and open recommender systems, tools for exposure to diverse perspectives, new forms of cognitive and epistemic feedback, collaborative and AI-assisted fact-checking, privacy and visibility controls, mechanisms for improving civility and evidentiary integrity, and reputation systems that reward high-quality participation. The proposals are intended both as a practical menu of design possibilities and as a starting point for broader interdisciplinary discussion about digital public spaces designed around democratic values rather than engagement alone.
[HC-14] AI-Mediated Self: How HCI Defines and Relates to the Self
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10770
作者: Jenny Xiyu Fu,Qian Yang,Malte Jung
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:How might AI alter how we understand and experience the self? This scoping review analyzes 102 papers to examine how the self is defined in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), how AI-self relationships are conceptualized, and what risks emerge when AI becomes entangled with selfhood. Our synthesis makes three contributions. First, we define AI-mediated self as a conceptual umbrella that connects dispersed work across education, workplace, health, and creative practices. Second, we consolidate six framings of the self with four domains of ethical risk-agency/autonomy, identity/authorship, relational capacity, and meaning-making-into a conceptual map that provides a reusable vocabulary across contexts. Third, we introduce the Inclusion of AI-Self framework, which situates AI-self relationships along a spectrum of proximity. Together, these contributions position selfhood as a central design space in HCI.
[HC-15] What does it mean to use AI critically? Unpacking critical AI literacy through students evaluation of AI-generated content
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10743
作者: Hyejeong Lee,Wonjin Yu
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Although critical AI literacy has emerged as an important educational goal, the construct remains conceptually broad and insufficiently specified for guiding students’ day-to-day interactions with AI. This study examines how students critically evaluated AI-generated content. Drawing on an analysis of students’ chatbot interactions and written reflections, we first identified seven stages of AI-supported academic task completion and five functional roles assumed by AI. More importantly, we identified eight evaluative lenses that students used to assess AI-generated responses (accuracy, completeness, task alignment/relevance, personalization, practicality, creativity, ethics, and bias). The findings suggest that critical AI literacy extends beyond verifying the factual accuracy of AI-generated information. Rather, critically engaging with AI involves situated and multidimensional judgment about the epistemic quality, contextual fit, practical feasibility, creative value, and ethical implications of AI-generated content. The framework offers both a conceptual contribution to the emerging literature on critical AI literacy and a practical tool for educators seeking to help learners move from passive acceptance of AI toward deliberate, context-sensitive, and responsible human judgment.
[HC-16] An ecology of participation for fusion energy development
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10914
作者: Aditi Verma,Katie Snyder,Andrea Morales Coto,Nathan Kawamoto,Daniel Hoover,Ana Kova,Sara Eskandari,Stephanie O’Malley,Jared Owens,Mahmud Farooque,Gabrielle Hoelzle,Stephanie Diem,Kevin Daley
类目: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Decisions that will shape future fusion facilities, including the production of waste, the management of tritium, the achievement of safety, and impacts on land, water, and local communities, are increasingly becoming sociotechnical in nature. For prior energy technologies, fission among them, such decisions were made top-down and met sustained public opposition. Research shows such opposition is rarely a deficit of public understanding and is instead rooted in place-specific environmental, health, sociocultural, and economic concerns and in distrust of how technologies are selected and sited. We argue that fusion developers have an opportunity to design differently, and we propose an ecology of participation: multiple, complementary modalities of engagement sustained over time, replacing the one-off public consultations now typical of large infrastructure projects. We synthesize human- and environment-centered design frameworks and introduce a framework that reinterprets opposition as a divergence between communities and technology developers in values, norms, or design characteristics. We present six case studies from our work: participatory technology assessment focus groups, participatory design workshops, immersive virtual-reality models of a fusion facility, the Global Fusion Forum platform, the Imaginary Energies speculative design platform, and Heartbeat, an arts-based sound installation. Mapping these onto the values-norms-design framework shows how each interrogates or closes a different part of the expert-public gap, and exposes two limitations of fusion public engagement efforts writ large: developers are seldom asked to articulate their own values and norms, and the environment is represented only indirectly. We close with five guiding questions for fusion researchers building their own participatory engagements.
计算机视觉
[CV-0] Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12470
作者: Jusuk Lee,Sungha Kim,Yeonsoo Park,Jonguk Cheon,Yoonkyo Jung,Yongjun You,H. Jin Kim,Jia-Bin Huang,Furong Huang,Youngseok Jang,Seungjae Lee
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods predominantly imitate demonstrated motions. Such strict motion matching often limits generalization to initial object poses, goal poses, and grasps not shown in the video. Alternatively, discovering a policy via reinforcement learning (RL) allows for broad generalization, but without prior guidance, it struggles with high-dimensional exploration in complex, multi-stage tasks. To address these coupled generalization and exploration challenges, we present Dex-One2Many, a real-to-sim-to-real framework that learns a generalizable dexterous manipulation policy from a single human video. Our key insight is to abstract the video into sequential scene graphs that guide RL, enabling efficient exploration while preserving broad generalizability. The graphs serve as generative constraints for sampling diverse reset states and provide dense rewards for each stage. Because the graphs constrain relations rather than exact poses, these reset states cover object poses and grasps beyond the video, while initializing each stage from them with dense rewards keeps exploration short and guided. Trained entirely in simulation, Dex-One2Many transfers zero-shot to a real multi-fingered hand. Across five tool-use and manipulation tasks, Dex-One2Many exceeds baselines by 6.5% in seen configurations, while its robust generalization widens this gap to 71% in unseen scenarios.
[CV-1] Rubric-CEPR: Self-Evolving Image Editing via Reward-Verified Self-Distillation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12469
作者: Ritesh Thawkar,Shubham Patle,Shravan Venkatraman,Rao Muhammad Anwer
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Instruction-guided image editors have become highly capable, yet improving them further still depends on human-edited training pairs or external reward models. Such supervision is costly to obtain and can reward plausible failures: a realistic output may leave the requested change undone or alter content that should be preserved. In this work, we strive to improve a pretrained image editor using only its own generations, without human-edited targets or an external training-time reward model. To this end, we propose a self-evolving framework, named Rubric-CEPR, that verifies the editor’s own samples with its internal representations through a rubric-augmented Contrastive Edit-Preservation Reward (CEPR). A Planner proposes structured edit instructions from unlabeled images, the Editor samples multiple candidate edits, and a frozen Critic scores each candidate with decomposed rubric checks for edit realization, removal of the old state, and content preservation, using features already exposed by the editor. Non-compensatory gates reject infeasible candidates, and the best verified candidate is distilled into the editor through lightweight adapter training. On Qwen-Image-Edit, Rubric-CEPR improves ImgEdit from 4.36 to 4.60 (+5.5%), with a +24.9% gain on object isolation, and transfers to GEdit-Bench and Complex-Edit. The same procedure also improves Step1X-Edit by +7.8% on ImgEdit. We hope our approach will serve as a solid baseline for image editors that improve themselves from their own verified samples. Our code is publicly available at \hrefthis https URL\textthis URL
[CV-2] DreamTrue: Action-Faithful Robot World Model with Counterfactual Post-Training
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12468
作者: Junyan Li,Ruizhi Li,Yu Liu,Xiangshuo Liu,Mingchao Sun,Hongyu Pan,Mu Xu,Lue Fan,Zhaoxiang Zhang
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We present DreamTrue, a multi-view, cross-embodiment robot world model for action-faithful and physically plausible video prediction. Training such a model on existing robot datasets faces two obstacles: imprecise calibration can impair action following, while limited coverage of unsuccessful interactions can bias predictions toward successful outcomes. To improve action following across embodiments, we render action trajectories into image-space conditions and introduce offline geometric calibration to align these conditions with the target videos. To broaden interaction coverage, we introduce counterfactual post-training, modifying recorded action trajectories and generating future videos under a wider range of actions and contact configurations. To provide feedback on these predictions without paired ground-truth futures, we construct a human-annotated video dataset covering robot, object, and interaction defects and use it to train an embodied video reward model. Its scores guide reinforcement-learning post-training toward more physically plausible interaction outcomes. On AgiBot, DreamTrue attains state-of-the-art action following, while reducing the human-assessed interaction defect rate from from 48.12% to 6.25%. Notably, our model ranks first in the world model track of the AgiBot World Challenge 2026. The project page can be found at this https URL.
[CV-3] What 30000 Hours of Ego-centric Video Does Not Teach
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12464
作者: Jiahua Dong,Anurag Bagchi,Yash Jangir,Muhammad Zubair Irshad,Sergey Zakharov,Martial Hebert,Homanga Bharadhwaj,Yu-Xiong Wang,Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini,Pavel Tokmakov
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:World models offer a promising alternative to physics-based simulators, yet remain far from practical deployment. We ask how far scaling ego-centric human video takes them, using a dataset of 30,000 hours spanning over 1,000 scene types and 14,000 contributors. Rather than relying on opaque downstream metrics, we directly evaluate agent and object-interaction fidelity on a challenging out-of-distribution benchmark. Increasing training data by 100x improves both, but unevenly: the agent is modeled well, while object fidelity remains far lower and improves slowly. We show that the agent gains need not come from data, and a careful visual conditioning design saturates fidelity with a fraction of it, which lets us measure object fidelity on its own and discover its saturation point. We then introduce a supervision scheme that shifts capacity from scene appearance toward object dynamics, improving object fidelity though a substantial gap remains. Finally, our conclusions transfer to downstream humanoid modeling. Overall, our results suggest that scaling ego-centric data brings agent modeling close to its limit while leaving its effects on the world far behind, and that closing this gap will depend on how models are trained, not only on how much data they see.
[CV-4] OuroWorld: Bringing Any 3D World Alive as Diverse Endlessly Looping 3D Cinemagraphs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12461
作者: You-Zhe Xie,Ting-Wei Chou,Yu-Hsuan Li,Kaipeng Zhang,Zhixiang Wang,Yu-Lun Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:Recent 3D world models generate photorealistic, explorable scenes that remain frozen in time. OuroWorld is a mask-free framework that turns any static 3D Gaussian Splatting scene into a 3D cinemagraph: a dynamic scene with vivid, diverse motion looping seamlessly from any viewpoint. A vision-language model infers plausible dynamics and guides a video model to synthesize a reference video, which we lift and complete into multi-view videos. To learn from this imperfect supervision, we propose Inconsistency-Robust Periodic 4DGS: a Fourier-series deformation field guarantees looping by construction, while a Grounded Drift Field anchored at the reference view absorbs cross-view inconsistency. Unlike prior Eulerian methods limited to fluid-like motion, we capture general deformation, object motion, and illumination change. We introduce a ground-truth-free evaluation covering vividness, naturalness, loop seam coherence, and scene quality. On 39 reconstructed and generated scenes, OuroWorld outperforms all baselines and wins 70.8%-99.0% of user-study comparisons. Project page: this https URL
[CV-5] WorldGuide: Goal-Directed Video World Model for Procedural Task Execution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12459
作者: Ankan Deria,Komal Kumar,Hisham Cholakkal,Fahad Shahbaz Khan,Salman Khan
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Video generators and video-based world models can synthesize plausible visual trajectories, but long-horizon procedural tasks require generation to adapt to what has actually been produced. A model must determine the next action from its generated state, execute that action, and recognize when the task is complete. Open-loop generation cannot adapt to execution outcomes, while existing closed-loop systems often rely on pretrained executors or indirect verification. This leaves a gap between deciding an action and successfully realizing it. We formulate procedural video generation as \emphclosed-loop task execution in visual world space and introduce \textbfWorldGuide. Given only an initial image and a task goal, WorldGuide predicts an atomic action, generates its corresponding video clip, and uses the generated result to select the next action or terminate. The Planner and Executor are trained on the same step-level procedural demonstrations: the Planner learns to predict the next atomic action or task completion from visual progress, while the Executor is directly trained to realize the predicted actions. Hierarchical visual memory maintains state across long-horizon execution with bounded history token cost. Due to the lack of step-level action-video supervision for joint planner-executor training, we introduce \textbfWorldGuide Bench: approximately 59K step-annotated videos across 245 tasks and 27 procedural categories. WorldGuide achieves a 33.33% Task Success on \textbfWorldGuide-Bench, compared with 29.90% for the strong recent video model MiniMax-H3, even though MiniMax-H3 receives reference action plans, and achieves 47.69% on \textbfVideoCraft-Bench compared with 32.73% for MiniMax-H3 under goal-only conditioning. These results demonstrate the importance of coupling planning with learned execution for goal-directed procedural video generation.
[CV-6] OmniCapBench: A Deep-Structured Evaluation Framework for Fine-Grained Audio-Visual Captioning NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12458
作者: Zhongyu Yang,Jiale Tao,Ruitao Chen,Zuhao Yang,Yingfang Yuan,Xueliang Zhao,Auden,Kai Wang,Shuai Shao,Biao Wang,Steve Yves,Qinglin Lu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly evolving toward continuous audio–visual reasoning, creating an urgent need for evaluations that expose their capability limits. Audio–visual captioning is an ideal diagnostic task, yet current benchmarks face a coupled trade-off: whole-caption scores provide coverage without localization, local probes provide localization without coverage, and unconstrained LLM judges introduce instability. We introduce OmniCapBench (Omni-Video Caption Benchmark), a benchmark that reframes audio–visual caption evaluation as a deep-structured diagnostic framework. OmniCapBench shifts the prediction target from free-form text to sets of atomic, verifiable evaluation units across three tracks: entity references, visual shots, and audio events, enabling reliable scoring with deterministic constraint checks and localized LLM-based semantic comparisons. With 786 densely annotated videos, OmniCapBench effectively distinguishes MLLM perception errors, including temporal grounding failures, identity drift, cross-modal misalignment, and hallucinated descriptions. Evaluating frontier MLLMs reveals strong local perception but weak long-horizon audio–visual reasoning, particularly in identity drift and cross-modal misalignment, providing a fine-grained roadmap for omnimodal development.
[CV-7] BrickBench: Evaluating Agent ic Brick Design WWW
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12452
作者: Peter Kulits,Yiqing Xu,R. Kenny Jones,Cordelia Schmid,Jiajun Wu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:We propose BrickBench, a benchmark for agentic text-conditioned LEGO-set design. Given a prompt, an agent is tasked with producing an assembly that not only satisfies semantic and design criteria, but that can also be physically built. To do so, it must select parts from a discrete library and reason jointly about local and global constraints. We score validity, alignment, and design across three settings that vary in scale and part availability. We provide BrickAgent, an environment for coding agents to construct, inspect, and validate their designs. We find that leading agents largely satisfy verifiable physical and semantic requirements, but fall short of human designs. We release our benchmark and environment at this http URL
[CV-8] VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12451
作者: Boyao Han,Chen Shi,Jingjing Qian,ZhuoTan Tian,Li Jiang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful foundations for robotic manipulation, but their reliance on fixed camera configurations during training makes them brittle to changes in camera count or pose during deployment. To overcome these limitations, we propose VersaCamVLA, a camera-configurable framework that decouples camera-set representation from action learning. VersaCamVLA learns a unified scene-token interface that maps an arbitrary, variable set of posed RGB views into fixed-size latent scene tokens. This is achieved via multi-signal target-view prediction and Wrist-Augmented Pose Sampling (WAPS), which leverages natural wrist-camera motion for free pose diversity. At deployment, a lightweight spatial encoder injects these compact scene tokens into a pretrained base VLA as a supplementary visual condition, requiring no explicit 3D sensing or novel-view rendering. Experiments on RoboTwin, LIBERO, and a real-robot platform demonstrate that VersaCamVLA consistently outperforms prior VLA methods and direct multi-view baselines, maintaining robust performance across varying camera counts and unseen camera poses.
[CV-9] One Block Multiple Depths: Recurrent Vision Transformers with Depth-Programmed Experts
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12448
作者: Adrian Bulat,Yassine Ouali,Georgios Tzimiropoulos
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:In this work, we show that a single Transformer block, applied recurrently, can match the accuracy of a full-depth vision encoder at comparable inference FLOPs without intermediate feature distillation. reViT restores depth-specific transformations by representing the FFN at each recurrent depth as a convex combination of a small shared expert bank. A continuous normalized-depth coordinate programs this mixture, defining a resampleable trajectory through FFN parameter space. We evaluate this design in two regimes: supervised ImageNet-1k training and distillation from a DINOv2 teacher. Across both regimes, controlled adaptations identify weight-space merging as the strongest tested MoE family at a matching one-FFN budget, ahead of the token-dispatch and output-mixture alternatives. Trained from scratch, reViT-B/16 attains DeiT III accuracy with about 70% fewer stored parameters. An 8-experts model distilled using only the teacher’s output features retains nearly all of its DINOv2 teacher’s linear-probe accuracy and transfers across classification, segmentation, and depth prediction. Elastic-depth training allows one checkpoint (trained model) to operate at multiple tested depths by resampling the same normalized coordinate interval. For fixed-depth deployment, the recurrent block can be materialized as a conventional dense graph, removing online routing and merging without changing the one-FFN-per-depth compute but expanding deployment storage.
[CV-10] LEGO: A Lifting-Free Approach for Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12442
作者: Suhwan Cho,Yonwoo Choi,Soongjin Kim,Jicheol Park,Taegyu Lim
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Generating an egocentric video from a single exocentric recording is a challenging case of novel view synthesis, as the two cameras share little overlap and much of the target view is unobserved. Current state-of-the-art methods reconstruct the scene explicitly by estimating depth, lifting the video into a point cloud, and re-rendering it from the egocentric camera to condition a video diffusion model. This deterministic mapping assigns each pixel to a single reprojected location, which preserves texture but translates depth errors into misplaced content. We ask what a video diffusion model should receive as its condition and propose a lifting-free answer: a learned view synthesizer, an LVSM-style transformer fine-tuned to render the egocentric view directly without depth, point clouds, or reprojection, resolving cross-view correspondence internally. In contrast, its probabilistic mapping averages each region over candidate source locations according to a learned correspondence distribution, preserving structure while fine texture is averaged away. We argue that this trade-off suits a diffusion generator, whose denoising training excels at restoring detail, so an effective condition should prioritize structural alignment over sharpness. This distribution’s concentration also yields a per-region confidence, used both to mask low-confidence regions and to guide the generator toward high-confidence areas during early layout-forming denoising steps. Our approach consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art explicit pipeline and generalizes to other datasets without retraining. The synthesizer thus supplies view structure, and the diffusion model its detail.
[CV-11] Pumpire: Unified Benchmark for Metric Distance Estimation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12423
作者: Siyu Chen,Zehan Wang,Jiayang Xu,Yihan Wu,Jialei Wang,Junming Chen,Ziang Zhang,Yutong Ying,Zhou Zhao
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We present Pumpire, a unified benchmark for evaluating metric point-pair distance estimation capability of both image- and video-level 3D foundation models, with or without depth priors. In contrast to previous approaches that normally evaluate depth and camera intrinsics separately or evaluate point-clouds with geometric similarity metrics, which cannot directly reflect models’ point-to-point distance estimation capability, Pumpire directly assesses point-to-point distances from the reconstructed geometry. To this end, we collect a large-scale and diverse dataset (pumpire-6k) comprising 100 real-world scenes, each annotated with physically measured point-pair distances and containing 64 frames, for a total of 6,400 frames. Building on this dataset, we establish a holistic evaluation protocol that covers both image- and video-level 3D foundation models and enables direct assessment of point-pair distance errors and cross-setting comparison. We conduct extensive experiments across 29 baseline configurations of representative 3D foundation models and provide a comprehensive analysis of the results. By offering this benchmark, we target the more fundamental ability to perceive and estimate physical scale in the reconstructed 3D space, which prior evaluation protocols have largely overlooked. The project page can be found at this https URL
[CV-12] Beyond Spatio-Temporal Priors: A Generalizable Approach for Dense Correspondence Matching NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12421
作者: Luping Liu,Bingyi Kang,Yifan Wang,Dong Xu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026. 24 pages, 7 figures, including appendices
Abstract:Dense correspondence matching has historically been bounded by simplifying spatio-temporal priors, such as smooth motion and rigid geometry. While effective for classical tasks, these assumptions break down in image editing and reference-guided generation (IEG), where transformations can preserve visual identity while breaking physical continuity. To establish identity-preserving correspondence across such transformations, we introduce FreeMatching, a generalizable framework combining generative and semantic foundation representations with heterogeneous supervision from classical datasets, tracked videos, and synthetic scenes. Teacher-guided iterative refinement further improves correspondence in IEG without dense correspondence annotations. Experimentally, a single FreeMatching model substantially improves correspondence quality on challenging IEG image pairs while retaining competitive performance on classical benchmarks. Furthermore, we demonstrate its utility as a quantitative metric for evaluating identity preservation, with scores that correlate with human judgment. The code is available at this https URL.
[CV-13] OneSearch-VL: Unified Multimodal Deep Research Agent for Image and Video
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12419
作者: Hongyu Li,Manyuan Zhang,Kaituo Feng,Shu Chen,Dian Zheng,Hao Li,Hao Yu,Zhangquan Chen,Zoey Guo,Ray Zhang,Shaofei Huang,Tianrui Hui,Linjiang Huang,Si Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Single-image, multi-image, and video deep research require different visual operations but share a workflow of visual grounding, external retrieval, and fact composition. A key challenge is to preserve the dependencies linking localized visual anchors, entity relations, source-supported facts, and answer-producing operations. We introduce OneSearch-VL, a unified agent centered on the Visually Grounded Evidence Graph (VGEG), which encodes these dependencies as a shared task-level reference for data construction, process supervision, and operation-level evaluation. Our VGEG-based data engine constructs and verifies multi-image and video questions and filters expert trajectories. Using these data, we assemble OneSearch-VL-SFT-110K and OneSearch-VL-RL-10K for SFT and RL, respectively. We further derive the Evidence-aware Visual-Grounded Rubric reward (EVGR) from VGEG annotations to supervise evidence traceability and visual grounding during RL. For fine-grained evaluation, we construct OneSearch-MI-Bench and OneSearch-Video-Bench, organizing questions by the research operations encoded in their VGEGs. Experiments show that OneSearch-VL-8B improves over Qwen3-VL-8B with tool access by 20.2 and 17.6 percentage points on the two new benchmarks, respectively, while also achieving substantial gains across 7 image benchmarks and VideoDR. Project repository: this https URL
[CV-14] MAMHOI: Factorizing Scene-Aware Human-Object Interaction through Affordances
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12416
作者: Mingyuan Lei,Yoonchang Sung,Tat-Jen Cham
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Generating realistic human-object interactions (HOI) in complex 3D scenes requires two complementary capabilities: reasoning about interaction feasibility in the environment and synthesizing realistic human-object motion. However, supervision for these capabilities is rarely available jointly at scale. Human-scene datasets provide rich information about environment-aware motion, while human-object datasets capture detailed interaction dynamics, yet paired human-object-scene data remain scarce. We present MAMHOI, an affordance-mediated factorization for scene-aware human-object interaction generation. MAMHOI factorizes scene-aware HOI generation through an explicit motion-affordance interface between scene understanding and motion synthesis: a scene-conditioned model first predicts where and how an interaction can be feasibly executed, and an affordance-conditioned HOI model then generates the corresponding human-object motion. This factorization allows scene understanding and interaction dynamics to be learned from complementary sources of supervision without requiring paired human-object-scene data. Experiments in complex indoor environments show that MAMHOI reduces object–scene penetration while better preserving human–object interaction quality, yielding more realistic and physically feasible scene-aware interactions. Project page: this https URL
[CV-15] WorldCast: Distributed Multiplayer World Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12412
作者: Ziyang Ye,Junchao Huang,Evelyn Zhang,Zhihao Xie,Ruicheng Zhang,Boyao Han,Litao Ban,Ziye Wang,Xinting Hu,Shaoshuai Shi,Zhuotao Tian,Li Jiang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Multiplayer world models must generate independently controlled views with consistent representations of both players and their shared environment. Most existing approaches coordinate multiple players through joint multi-view generation, whose cost grows with each additional player. We present WorldCast, a distributed multiplayer world model in which each player runs a local client comprising a video generator and a state model. Using recorded player positions and map geometry during training, the state model estimates the player’s position from generated video and control inputs. Clients exchange player states and project them into camera-aligned player state fields that guide where and how other players are rendered. Shared scene state enables clients to reuse one another’s generated observations to maintain consistent scene appearance across views. Experiments on Counter-Strike 2 demonstrate WorldCast’s consistency, real-time performance, and distributed scalability. The camera-aligned player state field improves player rendering rates by over an order of magnitude over joint-generation methods, while shared scene state improves visual consistency over whole rounds. Each client runs in real time and exchanges only player and scene states, enabling scalable multiplayer generation without a centralized computational bottleneck. Image quality remains stable over hour-long rollouts.
[CV-16] LeWAM: A JEPA World Action Model with Diffusion-Steering-Based MPC
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12407
作者: Shashank Hegde,Alexander Popov,Elie Aljalbout,Nikolai Smolyanskiy
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 14 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:World action models (WAMs) predict actions and future observations, typically from a reconstruction-based representation that carries noisy, redundant information which can complicate downstream predictions. We introduce LeWAM, a bidirectional transformer for forward, backward, inverse dynamics and policy prediction, on a decoder-free JEPA latent trained end-to-end through all four modes. We see the following benefits: 1) Alignment: linear probes read robot and object state from LeWAM’s latent better than from a regular Le World Model (a forward-only JEPA world model), while the latent ignores visual distractors as well as LeWM does and far better than a reconstruction-based WAM. 2) Acting: Closed-loop evaluations of LeWAM match a regular flow-matching policy trained on the same encoder at matched size, while also providing a world model. 3) Planning: Sampling raw actions when planning with WAMs lets MPC exploit dynamics-model inaccuracies; planning in the noise space of the policy head instead improves the closed-loop performance of these WAMs.
[CV-17] SpaceFlow: Locally Controllable 3D Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12399
作者: Neil De La Fuente,Joan Lafuente,Mukhammadali Sayfiddinov,Felicia Scharitzer,Marc Pollefeys,Ata Celen,Sayan Deb Sarkar,Elisabetta Fedele
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:Current 3D generation methods lack explicit local control: geometric adherence is often defined by a global control strength, and appearance cannot be specified locally. We present SpaceFlow, a training-free pipeline for locally controllable 3D generation from text descriptions and a collection of geometric primitives. Each primitive serves as a proxy for an object part and is assigned a local control level, enabling users to specify whether regions should strictly follow the input shape or allow generative completion. During structure generation, we enforce these spatial constraints within the generative flow process. For appearance synthesis, the generated structure is segmented and matched to the primitives. Each generated part is conditioned only on its assigned text or image cue, thereby limiting cross-part leakage. Regional geometry metrics demonstrate that SpaceFlow preserves the specified geometry in high-control regions and enables plausible shape variation in low-control areas. A user study further indicates that the resulting balance between geometric fidelity and generative freedom remains competitive in overall quality. When evaluating appearance on fixed geometry, text-conditioned routing achieves state-of-the-art prompt faithfulness and color/material accuracy. Qualitative results additionally show localized routing of image cues. The project page is available at this http URL.
[CV-18] GenIA: Generative Reconstruction with Test-Time Input Alignment
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12388
作者: Stefano Esposito,Naama Pearl,Polina Karpikova,Samuel Rota Bulò,Lorenzo Porzi,Peter Kontschieder,Andreas Geiger,Jonathon Luiten
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Reconstructing complete 3D object assets from monocular or sparse multi-view observations remains challenging. Generative 3D foundation models can complete object geometry beyond the observed views, but their predictions may not faithfully reproduce the observed geometry, appearance, or pose. We introduce GenIA, a framework for test-time input-aligned generation that grounds SAM3D’s generative prior in geometric and photometric observations without retraining the foundation model. We improve object pose by deriving translation and scale from geometry while retaining the learned rotation prior, and align appearance through visibility-biased attention, cross-observation fusion, and differentiable rendering guidance during denoising. An optional post-denoising refinement further adapts the appearance latent, lightweight decoder adapters, and object placement to the observations. Our framework also supports externally supplied geometry; when given temporal shapes of dynamic objects, it recovers a shared, input-aligned canonical appearance and stable world-space placement. Across synthetic and real benchmarks, GenIA improves pose prediction and object reconstruction from monocular, multi-view, and dynamic inputs, outperforming recent optimization-based, per-frame image-to-3D, and video-to-4D methods. Our project page is available at this https URL.
[CV-19] WorldAlign: Decoupled 4D Reward for World-Consistent Video Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12382
作者: Jing He,Kaixin Ding,Xingye Tian,Guibao Shen,Wenhang Ge,Xin Tao,Pengfei Wan,Ying-Cong Chen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Faithful visual world simulation requires generated videos to maintain 4D world consistency, encompassing both static and dynamic consistency. Static consistency requires coherent 3D structure in static environments across viewpoints, while dynamic consistency requires plausible subject motion and consistent appearance over time. Geometry-aware post-training offers a promising way to improve world consistency. However, existing methods often rely on a static-scene assumption. Even those that accommodate dynamic scenes struggle to provide reliable static-consistency feedback, while dynamic consistency is often overlooked or inadequately assessed. To address these limitations, we introduce WorldAlign, a decoupled 4D reward framework that semantically separates static regions and dynamic subjects and provides feedback by aligning each with a world prior suited to its assumptions. For static regions, WorldAlign aligns static geometry with a geometric world prior through semantically guided masked reprojection, enabling more reliable static-consistency evaluation; an auxiliary camera-motion reward discourages nearly static solutions. For dynamic subjects, WorldAlign uses a strong vision-language model (VLM) as a dynamic world prior and constructs a VLM-as-a-judge reward based on sample-specific checklists that assess dynamicity, physical plausibility, shape, and texture consistency. This decoupled design enables more effective online post-training without requiring human preference annotations. Across two pretrained image-to-video generators, Wan2.1 and Wan2.2, WorldAlign jointly improves static and dynamic consistency over existing methods without suppressing overall or subject motion. These results support decoupled world-prior alignment for more faithful visual world simulation. Project page: this https URL.
[CV-20] Agent Garten: Code Worlds for Evolving Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12374
作者: Jiawei Chi,Shangchen Miao,Zhiyuan Shi,Kailu Wu,Hanyang Wang,Weiliang Chen,Qiyu Dai,Jinshan Ren,Jun Gao,Mingsheng Long,Yueqi Duan,Jiangran Lyu,Jialong Wu,Fangfu Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Interactive virtual worlds allow agents to learn through exploration and interaction. What agents can learn is bounded by the environments they practice in, which must be faithful, with consistent state, rules, and dynamics, and realistic, with observations that follow the real-world visual distributions. Achieving both across diverse worlds remains a bottleneck. We introduce AgentGarten, a framework that couples simulators and game engines with a shared neural renderer to build real-time interactive environments. Its simulation backends maintain persistent world state and execute program-defined interaction rules, while the renderer generates visual observations from structured conditions exported through a common interface. To build the neural renderer, we adapt a pretrained video model to geometry conditions, distill it with our proposed Adversarial Forcing, and optimize inference for real-time interaction. Adversarial Forcing makes history prefilling differentiable through exact replay, so that losses on later predictions update how the renderer encodes prior observations, and adds real-data adversarial supervision to improve its visual quality. In AgentGarten, agents perceive the world through visual observations, interact with it in real time, and improve by distilling each round of experience into playbooks that subsequent agents inherit and refine. Our empirical study demonstrates a substantial gain in learning efficiency, with agents learning from just 4 rounds compared with millions for a conventional reinforcement learning counterpart. As new worlds can be written as code and rendered through the same interface, environments can scale in both number and difficulty alongside their agents, a step toward agents that keep evolving through interactive experience.
[CV-21] Embodied Turing Machines: Stateful Code for Robot Recursive Self-Improvement
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12369
作者: Kairui Hu,Siyuan Hu,Fangzhou Hong,Zhaoxi Chen,Ziwei Liu
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Most robot policies keep a model in the control loop: a VLA maps observations to actions, and an Agent Harness, such as Agent-as-Policy or Harness VLA queries a VLM for decision making at run time. We propose a different view: the embodied world is an Embodied Turing Machine, whose tape is the robot and environment state and rules are the policy. If this state can be represented accurately, the decision making can be written entirely in code. We therefore propose Code-Only-as-Policy (COAP): code measures and tracks the robot, environment, and task state from camera images and proprioception, and makes every decision from it. The same code applies across episodes, and different tasks share one library without a VLM or VLA in the loop. Compared with VLAs and Agent Harnesses, we analyze three advantages of COAP: (i) Explicit State: the state can be stored in code; (ii) Execution: code makes decision making controllable, recovers from failures flexibly, and runs fast and cheaply online; (iii) Extensibility: new tasks reuse, inherit, or extend the shared library, so capabilities can accumulate over tasks. These advantages make COAP a suitable medium for recursive self-improvement (RSI): coding agents develop the library in a closed loop, and each change is explicit and controllable. On RoboDojo’s 42 bimanual tasks, the resulting library reaches a success rate of 70.24% without a model at test time. The upper bound of COAP lies in how accurately the state is represented for decision making and how robust the code logic is. We thus propose COAP as a new paradigm for embodied tasks; since it applies across episodes, it can also serve as an efficient data engine for VLAs and Agent Harnesses.
[CV-22] HANS: A Handwritten Answer Sheet Dataset for Noisy Hybrid Document Parsing
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12363
作者: Xiazhen Wu,Wansong Qin,Yangbin Zheng,Liangda Fang,Zhan Li,Xiujie Huang,Liushen Zhou,Quanlong Guan
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Intelligent grading and automated scoring technologies constitute critical infrastructure for smart education. However, existing document parsing and handwriting recognition benchmarks are predominantly designed for well-structured printed documents or isolated mathematical expressions, lacking datasets that capture the complex characteristics inherent to student answer sheets, including multi-line derivation processes, heterogeneous mixtures of text and mathematical formulae, and noise artifacts such as strikethroughs. To address this gap, we introduce HANS, the first dataset explicitly constructed for real-world educational scenarios, encompassing mathematical expressions, natural language text, hand-drawn tables, and diverse noise patterns including corrections and deletions, accompanied by fine-grained annotations that establish a reliable foundation for robust recognition research. Building upon HANS, we propose NA-GOT, an end-to-end framework that achieves two-stage noise suppression through a lightweight noise suppression module operating at the feature level, complemented by a noiseaware attention mechanism incorporated into the decoding stage. Experimental results demonstrate that HANS poses substantial challenges to existing methods, while NA-GOT achieves significant improvements in both accuracy and stability for answer process recognition. The dataset will be made publicly available upon publication.
[CV-23] Distilling Routed 3D Privilege for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12355
作者: Hongxing Li,Yixin Li,Dingming Li,Zixuan Wang,Yuchen Yan,Wenqi Zhang,Weiming Lu,Yongliang Shen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Spatial reasoning remains a persistent weakness of vision-language models (VLMs), because RGB inputs do not directly provide geometric evidence. Existing remedies either inject 3D into the model at inference, paying architecture and latency costs, or train with outcome rewards that supervise only the final answer. Spatial errors originate in perception: a misjudged depth or direction can be corrected only by the scene’s true geometry, which the 3D-scanned sources of spatial training corpora already provide. We propose GPD (Geometry-Privileged Distillation), which makes geometric evidence the privilege in on-policy self-distillation (OPSD). For each question, depth, semantic, and bird’s-eye-view (BEV) cues are rendered as compact text and routed to the teacher alongside the reference answer; a privileged KL, applied only to incorrect trajectories, augments GRPO, and the deployed model remains RGB-only. On the 4B backbone, GPD achieves 57.1 on VSI-Bench and 37.6 average across MindCube, SPARBench, MMSI-Bench, and ViewSpatial, outperforming both GRPO and answer-privileged OPSD across spatial reasoning benchmarks. Ablations confirm the complementarity of 3D and answer privilege, the advantage of question-conditioned routing over full-context injection, and the benefit of restricting distillation to incorrect trajectories.
[CV-24] Reasoning -Informed Visual Editing
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12343
作者: Xue Yang,Peiyuan Zhang,Yilun Zhu,Qihao Yang,Mingxin Liu,Xiangyu Zhao,Ziqian Fan,Zhaokai Wang,Yan Li,Yifan Yang,Xu Yang,Xiaosong Jia,Yue Zhou,Zhihang Zhong,Junchi Yan
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Large Multi-modality Models (LMMs) have made significant progress in visual understanding and generation, but still face challenges in visual editing, particularly in following complex instructions, preserving appearance consistency, and supporting flexible input formats. To study this gap, we introduce RISEBench, the first benchmark for evaluating Reasoning-Informed viSual Editing (RISE), and extend it to RISEBench++, a more comprehensive and fine-grained benchmark for this emerging task. RISEBench++ extends the taxonomy into a hierarchical scheme spanning six reasoning dimensions: Temporal, Causal, Spatial, Logical, and Counterfactual Reasoning, together with Hybrid Reasoning integrating multiple reasoning types across multi-turn edits. These dimensions are further decomposed into 12 subcategories and 65 fine-grained task types. We expand input formats to include multi-image conditioning and scale the benchmark to 1000 human-annotated test cases, released in English and Chinese. We also improve our evaluation framework, assessing Instruction Reasoning, Appearance Consistency, and Visual Plausibility with human judges and an LMM-as-a-judge approach for more reliable and calibrated judgements. Beyond benchmarking, we introduce RISE-Agent, a training-free agentic framework integrating reasoning-driven planning, tool-augmented execution, and verifier-guided refinement, outperforming most strong existing approaches across diverse RISE tasks. We evaluate 58 visual editing approaches, including 34 open-source models, 19 closed-source models, and 5 agentic methods. The results reveal substantial challenges in reasoning-based visual editing, with even the strongest evaluated approach, GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst, achieving only 56.6% accuracy. RISEBench++ highlights the limitations of contemporary editing models, provides insights, and indicates future directions for reasoning-aware visual editing.
[CV-25] ContiLNN: Mitigating Slice Sampling Discontinuity with Liquid Neural Networks for Medical Image Restoration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12337
作者: Jialei He,Enhe Liu,Sifan Song,Pengfei Jin,Jionglong Su,Hongbin Wang,Zhixiang Lu,Yanhao Huang,Anteng Cai,Zhengyong Jiang,Jiaman Ding,S. Kevin Zhou,Jinfeng Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Anatomical continuity provides complementary information for medical image restoration, but its use requires accounting for local anatomy and variations in slice sampling. We introduce ContiLNN, which augments two-dimensional restoration backbones with bidirectional closed-form continuous-time (Bi-CfC) modules for cross-slice modeling while retaining in-plane feature extraction. Slice-index intervals modulate gates determined by local features and hidden states, enabling propagation to respond to sampling variations without numerical ODE integration. Reference-guided consistency aligns first- and second-order cross-slice intensity differences to preserve anatomical variation, while distillation from a frozen backbone helps retain in-plane fidelity. Across five training seeds, ContiLNN improves mean PSNR over Restore-RWKV by 0.1907, 1.0176, and 1.2482 dB for CT denoising, MRI super-resolution, and reduced-count PET restoration, respectively, with lower RMSE in all three tasks. CT results are descriptive for one held-out patient. PET ablations support ordered propagation beyond additional pointwise capacity. Under contiguous training, Bi-CfC achieves higher fidelity than a Bi-GRU with similar parameter counts and arithmetic costs across all tested sampling conditions. Matched seven-slice profiling shows 52.8% lower latency and 57.0% lower peak GPU memory use than Bi-GRU. Mixed-gap training improves sparse and irregular-context performance for both operators, without a uniform ranking across metrics and contexts. Experiments with fewer training patients and a second backbone further support data efficiency and backbone compatibility.
[CV-26] RiCo: Neural Simulation of Rigid-Body Interactions via Local Contact Reasoning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12333
作者: Ruixiang Ouyang,Guanren Qiao,Fansen Meng,Yueci Deng,Ruixing Jin,Kui Jia,Guiliang Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Accurate simulation of rigid-body interactions is essential for predictive physical world models. Despite recent progress in modeling object dynamics, capturing how local contacts between surfaces shape object motion remains challenging. While end-to-end world models predict interactions across entire scenes or objects, in practice, rigid-body contact is inherently local, and only nearby surfaces can directly exchange contact forces. Motivated by this observation, we introduce Rigid-body Contact Reasoning (RiCo), which represents interactions between objects through sparse neighborhoods of contact surface points. RiCo combines each point’s state with the relative geometry, motion, and physical properties of nearby surfaces, then reasons across the object’s points to determine how these local contacts jointly affect its motion. By confining cross-object reasoning to nearby surfaces while propagating contact information within each rigid body, RiCo retains fine-grained interaction details without the cost of modeling every pair of scene points. Such properties enable RiCo a higher accuracy and contact fidelity. Experiments on MOVi-benchmark demonstrate that RiCo reduces 100-frame position and orientation errors by 31-35% and approximately 38%, respectively, compared with baselines. Moreover, RiCo achieves high contact fidelity, with ground-truth-relative penetration-time and mean-depth differences of 11.0% and 2.22 mm, respectively. RiCo further generalizes zero-shot from small-scale training scenarios to scenes containing 270 objects. Our real-world multi-ball collision experiments further provide preliminary evidence of sim-to-real transfer.
[CV-27] Controllable Exaggeration for Generative Motion Models via Training-Time Adaptation and Inference-Time Guidance
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12316
作者: Amirhossein Zamani,Arianna Rampini,Bruno Roy
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Recent motion generative models have demonstrated strong capabilities in synthesizing physically plausible character motion, but often overlook established animation principles used by professional animators to ground and design their animation work. Understanding and incorporating these principles into motion generative pipelines is essential for producing motions that serve not only physically grounded applications but also the needs of the character animation community. This enables the creation of characters that not only move in physically plausible ways but also feel alive, expressive, and engaging. To close this gap, we focus on the Exaggeration principle of animation and investigate how it can be incorporated into modern motion generative pipelines to produce more expressive character motions. To this end, we introduce a framework that operates at two stages of existing motion generative pipelines. The first stage introduces exaggeration during training, where we perform supervised fine-tuning of pre-trained text-to-motion models on our curated exaggeration dataset. The second stage operates at inference time, where we: (i) introduce a mathematical formulation of exaggeration based on dynamic movement primitives (DMPs); and (ii) leverage this formulation as an exaggeration guidance signal to guide existing diffusion and flow-matching text-to-motion generation models toward exaggerated motion without additional training. Through qualitative and quantitative evaluations against three strong motion generation models, we show that our methods generate more exaggerated and expressive motions while preserving neutral reference motion intent and physical plausibility.
[CV-28] Is In-Domain Training Enough for Fine-Grained Industrial Anomaly Understanding?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12310
作者: Xingwu Zhang,Duanyang Du,Huiling Zhu,Jiayue Dai,Yixiao Liu,Guozhi Liu,Zhihan Zhang,Zijun Long
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:A single multimodal large language model (MLLM) struggles to excel simultaneously at detection, localization, description, and reasoning in multimodal industrial anomaly understanding (MM-IAU). We show that in-domain training does not close this gap. On MMAD, a widely adopted MM-IAU benchmark, trained specialists reach at most 75.5% accuracy in defect localization, against 92.3% for human experts, and even detect anomalies less accurately than their untrained base model. Meanwhile, different MLLMs offer complementary strengths but share this weakness in fine-grained perception, so combining them alone cannot remove it. We therefore propose SiGMA, a spatially grounded multi-agent framework that divides labor between heterogeneous MLLM agents and a dedicated visual defect expert. A multimodal searcher supplies industrial knowledge and normal references, the defect expert turns query-reference comparison into calibrated anomaly evidence, and a label-free reliability controller weighs each source by task-wise competence and query-level evidence quality. SiGMA reaches 85.2% average accuracy on MMAD, 4.0% above the strongest trained specialist and Gemini-2.5-Pro and within 1.5% of human experts. Even with three agents of at most 9B parameters, it reaches 84.4%, and new MLLMs join without retraining.
[CV-29] BudgetPix: Compute-Adaptive Tokenization for Pixel-Space Image Diffusion
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12307
作者: Ozgur Kara,Yujia Chen,Daniel Watson,David Forsyth,James Matthew Rehg,Wen-Sheng Chu,Du Tran
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Most image generation models rely on uniform tokenization, allocating the exact same computational budget to equally-sized image patches. This static paradigm cannot adapt to different resource constraints at inference time, and yields suboptimal quality-cost tradeoff by devoting the same effort to both plain backgrounds and intricate details. We propose BudgetPix, an adaptive tokenization framework that dynamically allocates compute based on visual complexity and spatial layout, enabling flexible computational budgeting at inference time. BudgetPix comprises three key components: (1) an adaptive encoder that maps a fixed-size image to a variable-length token sequence using an entropy-guided quadtree alongside a multi-scale patch embedder; (2) a scale-aware decoder reconstructs fixed-resolution images from multi-scale token sets; and (3) a flexible training and sampling schedule that enables pixel-space denoisers to operate across variable token counts. BudgetPix seamlessly integrates with existing pixel-space diffusion architectures, enabling a single checkpoint to be operated at a wide range of compute budgets. Evaluated on text-to-image generation, BudgetPix matches the fidelity of MiniT2I-L at 512^2 and PixelDiT at 1024^2 using just 25% of the original compute budget. In class-conditional generation using a MeanFlow backbone, BudgetPix requires merely 60% of the full compute budget to produce images with near-zero quality degradation, observing a marginal 0.8-point increase in FID. Comprehensive assessments by human and VLM judges confirm that BudgetPix establishes a significantly improved quality-efficiency tradeoff over prior budget-adaptive baselines. More details are available at our project page: this https URL
[CV-30] From What to Which: Decoding Modifier Grounding in Frozen MLLM s
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12305
作者: Barbara Toniella Corradini(AI for Good (AIGO), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy),Caterina Gallegati(University of Siena, Italy),Ludovica Genovese(AI for Good (AIGO), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, University of Genoa, Italy),Vittorio Murino(AI for Good (AIGO), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, University of Verona, Italy)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can describe increasingly complex visual scenes, token-level grounding becomes crucial. Yet, when an MLLM generates “the yellow banana on the left”, established grounding approaches focus on what is in the image (“banana”), overlooking tokens that help describe which instance is meant (“yellow”, “left”). In this work, we ask whether frozen MLLM representations contain decodable grounding information about the referred instance across generated tokens, extending to modifiers such as attributes, spatial expressions, and relational/action terms. To address this question, we introduce OTTER, a lightweight supervised probe over frozen MLLM representations that uses Optimal Transport (OT) to align generated tokens with visual regions and produce compact grounding maps. Our results show that (i) instance-discriminative visual information can be decoded from modifier tokens, with the clearest evidence for spatial terms, but (ii) is not confined to them, as contextualized object nouns also carry referential information; (iii) the recovered grounding remains informative under context perturbations, while selected regions remain relevant to generation; and (iv) the learned OT-based grounding extends beyond the controlled setting to free generation and cross-dataset transfer.
[CV-31] Multi-Agent Egocentric World Model with Fine-Grained Embodied Interaction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12299
作者: Dahyun Chung,Siyoon Jin,Hyunwook Choi,Honggyu An,Junyoung Seo,Hyunsung Kim,Seung Wook Kim,Seungryong Kim
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Egocentric world models predict first-person observations conditioned on an agent’s actions, but most focus on a single agent. Real embodied settings often involve multiple agents that act and interact within a shared environment. Existing multi-agent world models rely on coarse actions like locomotion, camera control, or discrete commands, leaving fine-grained embodied interactions underexplored. We formulate multi-agent egocentric world modeling as synchronized ego-stream generation for multiple agents interacting through fine-grained actions in a shared world. This requires cross-view action consistency, shared-environment consistency, and consistent propagation of interaction-induced state updates. We propose Multi-agent Egocentric World Model (ME-World), which jointly denoises multiple ego streams in a shared token sequence, conditions each stream on all agents’ target-view poses, and grounds generation with shared environment memory. We train and evaluate on real and synthetic multi-agent data and introduce shared-world consistency metrics for environment, update, and identity consistency. Experiments show ME-World improves shared-world consistency, action control, identity preservation, and video quality over existing methods.
[CV-32] Slot3R: Set-Associative Spatial Memory for Streaming 3D Reconstruction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12282
作者: Xiyuan Zhang,Yanming Yang,Kaiyuan Xu,Ruibo Li,Chi Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Streaming 3D reconstruction must preserve evidence from each frame while processing an expanding scene online. Spatial memory is a natural fit because it organizes history by reconstructed 3D location. Yet Point3R uses spatial proximity both to associate a new observation with an existing memory entry and to decide whether to fuse it, conflating co-location with state identity. Because pointers summarize image patches, nearby pointers may encode distinct surfaces, viewpoints, or visibility conditions; averaging them can destroy complementary evidence before later frames disambiguate it. We argue that location should determine address, not whether observations must merge. Slot3R realizes this principle as a training-free, set-associative retrofit that lets multiple states coexist at a shared address while keeping the pretrained Point3R backbone frozen. A bounded sparse readout further decouples persistent storage from per-frame decoder access. At 300-500 sampled frames, Slot3R reduces Point3R’s point-cloud accuracy error (Acc) by 57.1%-63.1% on 7Scenes and 64.0%-72.0% on NeuralRGBD, lowers Sim(3)-aligned absolute trajectory error (ATE) on all three pose benchmarks, and remains competitive on video-depth estimation. It completes all evaluated settings from 600 to 1000 sampled frames at about 19 FPS under the same protocol, whereas Point3R and InfiniteVGGT run out of memory at 800 frames and beyond.
[CV-33] DVD: Dynamic Vector Decoding for Efficient MLLM -based Perception
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12266
作者: Jinghua Hou,Zhe Liu,Hengshuang Zhao
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Multimodal large language models have made remarkable progress in bridging vision and language, facilitating various perception tasks essential for human-machine interaction, robotics, and autonomous driving. However, existing MLLM-based perception methods predominantly rely on text-based coordinate representation, which suffers from excessive token overhead, or fixed-range quantization, which suffers from range and precision constraints, especially for 3D domains with unbounded spatial range and high localization accuracy requirements. To address these challenges, we propose a dynamic vector decoding method named DVD, which unifies the representation of 2D and 3D perception tasks. Specifically, we first transform diverse perceptual representation (i.e., 2D bounding boxes, 2D masks, and 3D bounding boxes) into 1D vector sequences, which are then mapped to compact discrete tokens in the high-dimensional space. Then, a lightweight de-tokenizer enables seamless integration with MLLMs by decoding output tokens back to original 2D and 3D perceptual representations. Extensive experiments on 2D and 3D perception benchmarks including RefCOCO series, SUN-RGBD, KITTI, Hypersim, nuScenes demonstrate that DVD achieves superior performance in 2D and 3D tasks and reduces significantly the token overhead and inference latency. DVD provides an efficient and general framework for integrating perception capabilities into MLLMs, overcoming the inherent limitations of existing methods.
[CV-34] From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12230
作者: Yitong Wang,Fangyun Wei,Jinjing Zhao,Sirui Zhang,Hongyang Zhang,Dong Chen,Bo Dai,Yan Lu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Text prompting is an indirect interface for poster generation, requiring users to encode inherently two-dimensional composition intent into a one-dimensional sequence of words. We introduce a Spatial Canvas Interface that enables users to directly compose generation intent in space through four complementary binding types: semantic, identity, text, and pixel, together with Text Specifications for individual elements and global appearance. Based on this interface, we develop Compo, a poster generation model adapted from a pretrained image editing model to understand Spatial Canvas inputs and Text Specifications. Compo supports both direct inference, where users explicitly construct the canvas, and agentic mode, where a high-level request is automatically translated into a planned Spatial Canvas. To train Compo, we develop a scalable pipeline that automatically constructs supervision data for different binding types and their combinations, enabling efficient adaptation without training a specialized poster generator from scratch. We further introduce a benchmark that evaluates adherence to individual binding types and their joint composition. Experiments show that Compo achieves stronger compositional controllability than both general-purpose image generation models and dedicated poster generation systems while maintaining high visual quality. By decoupling intent specification from visual generation, our work shifts poster generation from prompting toward composing.
[CV-35] VibeEdit: Image Editing with Canvas Instructions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12229
作者: Jinjing Zhao,Fangyun Wei,Yitong Wang,Xiuyu Wu,Yunuo Chen,Yang Yue,Sirui Zhang,Wenbo Wang,Hongyang Zhang,Dong Chen,Yan Lu,Chang Xu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:In text-guided image editing, describing the desired change is often straightforward, but identifying the intended object or region can be cumbersome, especially when several objects look alike. We introduce a new image editing interface that lets users place spatial marks and optional short notes directly on the image. Together, these annotations form a canvas instruction that specifies where to edit and what to change. Our editor, VibeEdit, follows these instructions to perform object addition, removal, replacement, attribute modification, and movement without a separate text prompt. We construct 1.55 million source-target edit pairs with object masks and structured edit descriptions, from which we render canvas instructions during training. We adapt Qwen-Image-Edit with layer-decoupled conditioning that separately encodes source images and canvas instructions for image editing. We train the model with region-weighted supervised fine-tuning, followed by rubric-guided reinforcement learning to improve edit completion, local edit quality, and preservation of unedited regions. We evaluate VibeEdit on an independently constructed, human-curated benchmark of 419 cases emphasizing target selection among similar objects. VibeEdit achieves a VLM rubric score of 79.9 and an outside-region PSNR of 32.8 dB, compared with 67.4 and 24.0 dB for FireRed, the highest-scoring text-instructed baseline in our evaluation.
[CV-36] Stride Independent Patching for Deep Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12216
作者: Olivier Rukundo
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 8 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Abstract:This paper presents semi-automatic stride-independent patching (SSP) as an alternative to automatic stride-dependent patching techniques. SSP uses user or expert input to position predefined patches over one or more objects of interest. To evaluate its effectiveness, three patch-based datasets were created using SSP, overlapping patching (Overlap), and non-overlapping patching (Noverlap). DeepLabV3+ models with ResNet50, ResNet18, and MobileNetV2 backbones were trained sepa-rately on each dataset. Quantitative evaluations were performed on the respective test splits and a common external test set. SSP generally achieved higher segmentation scores on the test splits and required the shortest model training time across all three backbones. On the external test set, SSP achieved the highest average precision and F1-score across backbones, whereas Noverlap achieved the highest average recall. These preliminary results demonstrate that the potentially greater spatial coverage of Noverlap and Overlap does not generally translate into better segmentation perfor-mance and that SSP offers a favorable balance between segmentation performance and model training time.
[CV-37] Just Weather Scoring: Efficient End-to-end Nowcasting with Distributional Diffusion
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12189
作者: Jannik Wiese,Johannes Schusterbauer,Tommaso Martorella,Björn Ommer
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Generative diffusion models are well-suited for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting, but existing approaches often rely on separately trained compression or deterministic forecasting components and remain costly at inference due to iterative denoising. We introduce Just Weather Scoring (JWS), a single-stage, end-to-end diffusion model which addresses both issues by forecasting directly in radar space and enabling few-step generation. Radar-space modeling greatly simplifies training and inference and eliminates uncertainty arising from lossy compression. JWS combines Masked Asynchronous Diffusion, a timestep-sampling scheme that preserves clean context while adapting diffusion training to high-dimensional spatio-temporal data, with a simple scoring-rule objective that aligns training with probabilistic forecasting and unlocks few-step generation. On the SEVIR and MeteoNet benchmarks, JWS achieves state-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting performance at reduced training and inference cost. Even our smallest model remains competitive using substantially fewer parameters and more than 17x faster inference.
[CV-38] AI-Based On-Board Maritime Object Detection for Earth Observation Payload Data Reduction on Versal Embedded Hardware
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12182
作者: Thomas Goudemant,Aurélien Bobey,Omar Hlimi,Marjorie Bellizzi
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 8 pages. Accepted at the 10th On-Board Payload Data Compression Workshop (OBPDC 2026), Barcelona, Spain, 12-14 October 2026
Abstract:Very-high-resolution Earth-observation satellites acquire more data than they can store and downlink, while in maritime surveillance the vessels cover a tiny fraction of each scene. We study onboard vessel detection as a way to select what is downlinked, which reduces the data according to its content rather than coding every pixel; it is complementary to conventional onboard compression. The work follows three axes. (i) Data and algorithm: a controlled dataset is generated from 68 annotated Maxar scenes with 43 vessel classes, and a YOLOX-S detector is trained on it. (ii) Embedded deployment: the detector is quantized and deployed on the DPU of a Versal VC1902, with a limited loss of detection quality and a processing time of a few seconds per scene. (iii) Data reduction: we propose several downlink modes, from metadata only (box, class and score of each detection) to image crops around vessels, tiles holding detections, or the whole scene with a degraded background, and estimate from the measured detection errors the trade-off each offers between the vessels kept and the volume downlinked. On our dense harbor and coastal scenes, tiles keep 98% of the vessels with 29% of the scene volume, and crops 83% with 3%.
[CV-39] Connected Self Forcing: Beyond Local Learning in Video Autoregression
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12156
作者: Dongbin Zhang,Chaoda Zheng,Kangjie Chen,Xiangyu Li,Shijia Chen,Jinhao Deng,Yuqi Zhang,Guangfeng Jiang,Hongbin Lin,Choo Sin Wai,Minqi Wang,Puyi Wang,Jingye Zhang,Yu Zhang,Xianming Liu,Boyang Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:To stream long videos while maintaining visual quality and temporal consistency, Self Forcing mitigates exposure bias through self-rollout training on self-generated histories with key-value (KV) caching. To keep memory manageable, it detaches historical caches, preserving forward dependencies between chunks but severing the backward gradient paths. We introduce Connected Self Forcing, a training framework that reconnects gradient paths across autoregressive chunks, allowing feedback from later predictions to guide how earlier context is generated. These connections go beyond historical KV-writing: gradients pass through generated latents into the computations that produced them, linking the generation of earlier context to its use in later predictions. To make this connected training memory-efficient, we develop shortcut gradient replay, which recovers cross-chunk gradients without retaining the full rollout computation graph. Integrated with distribution matching distillation, Connected Self Forcing trains historical chunks according to both their direct supervision and their contribution to subsequent generation. Experiments on autoregressive video generation show improvements in long-horizon visual quality and temporal consistency, without changing the inference procedure.
[CV-40] Healthy Counterfactual Generation via Diffusion Inpainting for Mammography Classification MICCAI
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12147
作者: Inês Cruchinho Garcia,Mariana Mourão,Francisco Maria Calisto,Carlos Santiago,Jacinto Nascimento
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:False negatives remain a critical limitation of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer screening due to delayed detection and treatment. To address this issue, we propose a counterfactual data augmentation strategy that generates healthy mammograms by “erasing” lesions from anomalous images, thereby enriching the training distribution. We train a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model on BI-RADS 1 (healthy) mammograms and use a RePaint-based sampling strategy to inpaint realistic normal tissue within annotated lesion bounding boxes. The resulting healthy counterfactuals replace annotated lesion regions with realistic healthy tissue while preserving patient-specific anatomical structure, as supported by similarity metrics between real and generated images. Image realism was further assessed by radiologists and found to be consistent with the original dataset quality. We evaluate counterfactual augmentation across four representative classifier architectures: a convolutional neural network (ConvNeXt), a vision transformer (ViT), a vision-language model pre-trained on mammogram-report pairs (Mammo-CLIP) and a multi-scale attention-based multiple-instance learning framework (FPN-MIL). Experiments conducted on the VinDr-Mammo dataset show improvements in sensitivity across all architectures, particularly at 80% fixed specificity, contributing towards more reliable CAD systems for breast cancer. Code is available at: this https URL.
[CV-41] LVS: Local View Synthesis from Relative Camera Pose by Reusing Previous Views
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12127
作者: Qizhou Huo,Xuan Sun,Yongfei Guo,Zhipeng Wang,Yuanhao Gong
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Graphics (cs.GR); Multimedia (cs.MM); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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Abstract:Interactive scene exploration requires frequent view updates, although small camera motions preserve much of the visible content. Conventional 3D Gaussian Splatting nevertheless renders each target view, leaving this image overlap unexploited. Reusing rendered images offers an alternative. Geometric warping alone cannot recover newly exposed content and remains sensitive to depth errors. We propose a per-scene framework that replaces repeated scene rendering for nearby views with relative-pose-guided RGB-D image reuse. Geometric warping uses depth and relative pose to transport source content, while a lightweight multiscale network predicts RGB residuals to correct artifacts and infer missing appearance. Cached source features further reduce repeated computation. On GS-render, residual refinement improves PSNR by 0.72~dB over pure warping; evaluations on captured and rendered scenes demonstrate low query latency. This separation of scene rendering from local view updates supports responsive scene exploration, with potential applications in augmented and virtual reality.
[CV-42] SuperNav: An Agent ic Navigation System for Any Task in Any Scene
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12126
作者: Jinkai Zhang,Jingyi Xu,Yuanhong Yu,Jiarui Guo,Ruizhen Hu,Hujun Bao,Xiaowei Zhou,Sida Peng
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 20 pages, 7 figures. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:General-purpose service robots need navigation systems that can handle diverse human requests in unfamiliar environments, combining task generality with scene generality. Some existing methods fine-tune multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to predict navigation actions, making their behavior dependent on the coverage of navigation training data and potentially limiting generalization to new requests and environments. Our key insight is to let the MLLM focus on interpreting requests, understanding scenes, and making decisions while preserving its general-purpose capabilities and delegating motion execution to navigation tools. To realize this idea, we introduce SuperNav, which equips a pretrained MLLM with a specialized agent harness without navigation-specific fine-tuning of the MLLM. Our harness supports these decisions with Navigation Skills, agent-oriented Tools for physical interaction, and task-progress and context management. A unified visual-point interface connects decision-making to motion by allowing the model to specify destinations directly in images and revise its decisions from execution feedback. Together, these components support sustained navigation across different task requirements and environments. SuperNav outperforms four evaluated baselines on instance-level, multi-object, and demand-driven tasks. Category-level evaluation on HM3D and deployment on a real quadruped robot further demonstrate its applicability across environments. Project Page: this https URL
[CV-43] ContourVLA: A Closed-Loop Perception-Action Contour Policy for Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12107
作者: Ruicheng Zhang,Kaiwen Shen,Jiaqi Hou,Shuhan Yang,Junchao Huang,Kewei Zhang,Jun Zhou,Li Jiang,Shen Zhao
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Generalized referring expression segmentation (GRES) requires dynamically balancing high-level semantics for identifying a variable number of language-specified referents with fine-grained visual evidence for precise boundary delineation. This requirement challenges existing cascaded vision-language architectures, which typically rely on static feature interfaces and single-pass mask prediction, limiting adaptive perception and geometric correction. We introduce ContourVLA, a vision-language-action policy that recasts GRES as a closed-loop visuomotor process, in which editable contours serve as explicit policy states that condition multimodal perception and are updated by geometric action chunks. Evolution-Aware Semantic Scheduling (EASS) couples contour-guided bidirectional boundary sampling with state-conditioned routing of multilevel multimodal features, adapting perception to each contour state. Following supervised initialization, Dustbin-Augmented Entropic Credit Transport GRPO (DECT-GRPO) jointly optimizes discrete grounding and continuous contour actions with instance-level credits. Its rollout rewards and credits are derived from soft prediction-target correspondences that account for false positives and missed targets. ContourVLA improves gIoU over the strongest evaluated baselines by 8.7, 2.8, and 2.7 points on gRefCOCO val, testA, and testB, respectively, and achieves the highest mIoU across all eight RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, and RefCOCOg splits.
[CV-44] VINCIE-NExT: Unlocking Video Editing from Images via In-Context Modeling NEURIPS’26
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12104
作者: Leigang Qu,Feng Cheng,Ziyan Yang,Bangbang Yang,Zhaoyang Huang,Wei Chow,Yicong Li,Wenjie Wang,Tat-Seng Chua,Yan Zeng
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM)
备注: Accepted to NeurIPS’26. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Building a capable video editor remains significantly harder than a video generator: editing requires (source, instruction, edited) triplets that are prohibitively expensive to annotate and difficult to synthesize at scale, whereas image editing has already reached maturity with millions of such pairs readily available. In this work, we introduce VINCIE-NExT, a unified framework that transfers editing capability from images to videos through in-context visual demonstrations, alleviating the need for large-scale paired video editing data. VINCIE-NExT decomposes video editing into a structured chain of composable sub-tasks (Video - Image - Image - Video), routing editing intent through the image domain and enabling scalable joint training from heterogeneous image and video corpora under a unified diffusion objective. An image editing pair, synthesized by the model or supplied by the user, is prepended as an in-context visual demonstration that serves as a spatial appearance blueprint for every output frame. To ground appearance edits across the interleaved context, we introduce a novel position encoding that links image demonstrations and video frames in a shared spatial coordinate system, enabling pixel-faithful propagation of appearance changes to every output frame. Chain-of-Editing further provides principled test-time scaling: by executing the sub-task chain as progressive diffusion stages, editing quality can be improved by investing additional compute without retraining. Comprehensive experiments on OpenVE-Bench demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance across diverse editing categories, with ablations confirming the effectiveness of each component.
[CV-45] Few-Step Generation via Data-Space Iteration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12102
作者: Shanchuan Lin,Yansong Peng,Fu-Yun Wang,Haoqi Fan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Flow matching has emerged as a scalable paradigm for training high-quality generative models, but sampling from the learned probability flow requires many network evaluations. Distillation can reduce this cost to one or a few evaluations; however, one-step generation often sacrifices quality, making few-step generation the practical operating regime. Existing few-step methods perform their iterative computation along the probability flow and therefore require a fixed, manually chosen timestep discretization. This discretization is often chosen heuristically and is expensive to tune; it may also be restrictive when refinement difficulty differs across samples or spatial locations. We introduce data-space iteration, a few-step generation framework that removes flow discretization altogether. Starting from noise, a shared generator directly refines its prediction in data space, with every iteration trained to produce the best sample permitted by its capacity. Our formulation integrates with distribution matching distillation (DMD) with minimal changes, enabling a controlled comparison between iteration methods under matched training settings. On class-conditional ImageNet 256x256, data-space iteration outperforms standard discretization baselines and matches or improves upon variants selected through schedule search, without requiring schedule-specific training. These results show that data-space iteration provides a simple and effective alternative to discretized flow-space iteration for fast generation.
[CV-46] DVLA-RL: Dual-Level Vision-Language Alignment with Reinforcement Learning Gating for Few-Shot Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12095
作者: Wenhao Li,Xianjing Meng,Qiangchang Wang,Zhongyi Han,Yilong Yin,Liqiang Nie
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: This work has been submitted to the IEEE TPAMI for possible publication
Abstract:Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel categories from limited labeled examples. Recent studies incorporate textual semantics to compensate for limited visual observations and improve class representations. However, high image-text agreement may reflect both intrinsic object properties and incidental context, making support prototypes susceptible to contextual contamination. To address this problem, we propose DVLA-RL++, which extends DVLA-RL with complementary semantic purification (CSP) and counterfactual reinforcement-learning gating (CRG). Specifically, CSP generates intrinsic and nuisance descriptions from labeled supports and compares their agreement with each support token. An ambiguity-dependent rejection margin guides sparse evidence allocation, while an intrinsic semantic anchor fills the unassigned mass to provide a fallback when visual evidence is unreliable. CRG learns layer-wise semantic fusion strengths using a reward that balances recognition performance and nuisance exposure. An independently executed reference trajectory on the same episode provides a paired learning signal. Theoretical analysis relates retained evidence and anchor quality to prototype stability and establishes conditions for unbiased on-policy gradient estimation. Experiments on standard, fine-grained, and cross-domain benchmarks show state-of-the-art accuracy, with an average gain of 1.4% over DVLA-RL. The project page is available at this https URL.
[CV-47] Perception Test 2026: Challenge Summary and Extension to City-scale Audio-Visual Reasoning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12081
作者: Fedor Kitashov,João Carreira,Shiry Ginosar,Dima Damen,Andrew Zisserman,Viorica Pătrăucean
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Continuing the Perception Test challenge series, we organised the fourth edition as a workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malmö, Sweden. This edition focused on spatial intelligence and featured four different tracks: unified multiple-choice videoQA and grounded videoQA from the original Perception Test benchmark, alongside two new tracks based on city-scale walking-tour videos (KilometerAudio and KilometerVision). In this report, we describe the new benchmarks used for the city-scale tracks and summarise the winning solutions across all tracks, including a generalist model that competed across all tracks with satisfactory performance. The winning solutions in the newly added city-scale tracks demonstrated that complex spatial and multimodal reasoning can be solved by expensive agentic pipelines, but remains difficult for multimodal models used standalone.
[CV-48] A Minimal Optical-Flow Representation for Vision-Based Tactile Rotation Classification in Robotic Manipulation Across Gravity Domains
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12073
作者: Oscar Martinez-Bernal,Mario Cavero-Vidal,Francesco Grella,Carol Martinez
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Vision-based tactile sensors provide rich contact information, but processing high-resolution images can be costly for resource-constrained platforms such as space robots. This work investigates whether a compact representation of tactile motion can classify object rotation across different gravity conditions. Dense optical flow from a simulated GelSight Mini is aggregated over a 7x9 grid into 126 features and used to classify the direction of load-induced rotation under Earth, Mars, Moon, and orbital gravity. Gravity causes a small but significant shift in these features, accounting for 1.6% of their variance (R2 = 0.016). Despite its small magnitude, this shift affects models trained only on Earth data: XGBoost accuracy decreases from 94.4% on Earth to 75.9% in orbit. In contrast, a single model trained across all four gravity domains achieves 96.3% overall accuracy and 95.1%-97.0% across individual domains, without using gravity as an input. The representation can also be reduced to 40 features while retaining 95.7% accuracy, with XGBoost requiring only 0.14 ms per inference. These findings show that Earth-gravity performance alone is insufficient to establish the transferability of tactile perception for space robotic manipulation, highlighting the need to account for gravity-induced domain shifts during training and validation.
[CV-49] LIVIN: Benchmarking Spatial and Embodied Intelligence in Digital Twins of Lived-In Homes
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12069
作者: Peijun Xu,Chuansen Nie,Yiyang He,Yinuo Bai,Jingyang Liu,Kuixiang Shao,Yuyang Jiao,Kuanhao Xia,Jiayi Zhu,Zitian Yang,Yanqi Zhang,Tianye Tan,Shuwei Di,Junyi Xu,Jingyi Yu,Jiayuan Gu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Realistic household simulation must capture not only diverse environments but also the lived-in object arrangements and spatial constraints that shape robot motion and interaction. Existing resources often trade off scale, real-world correspondence, and interaction readiness, leaving a gap in faithful, interactive replicas of how real homes are actually arranged. To this end, we introduce LIVIN, a benchmark for spatial and embodied intelligence built on digital twins of 30 diverse lived-in homes. These replicas preserve observed room layouts, furniture configurations, and everyday belongings. To construct them, we design a human-in-the-loop workflow comprising instance recognition, architectural reconstruction, and object generation and placement, with intermediate results reviewed and corrected by humans against the source observations at each stage. We evaluate four tasks in LIVIN: 3D detection, 3D reconstruction, navigation, and loco-manipulation. Our evaluations show that current methods remain challenged by the dense object arrangements, occlusions, limited free space, and constrained interaction regions found in realistic lived-in homes. We hope LIVIN will help advance embodied AI in real-world homes, from spatial understanding to robotic interaction, and ultimately bring embodied intelligence into everyday home environments.
[CV-50] Look Back Think Ahead: Visual Memory on Demand for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12060
作者: Yicheng Xue,Han Wu,Jufeng Yang,Minjing Dong,Xinghao Chen,Hanting Chen,Jianyuan Guo
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 27 pages, 8 figures
Abstract:Processing long visual token sequences from high-resolution images makes multi-step reasoning computationally expensive for multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Existing one-shot pruning and aggregation methods compress visual tokens into a fixed context before decoding. However, visual evidence needs can shift as reasoning unfolds, making it difficult for a fixed compressed context to retain all the details needed across stages. To address this challenge, we propose ViMoD, a lightweight framework that maintains a compact visual context while preserving access to original fine-grained evidence as reasoning needs evolve. Deformable Aggregation of Region-wise Tokens (DART) learns content-adaptive groups and aggregation capacities, constructing compact Coarse representations linked to recoverable original Fine tokens. Temporal Routing for Adaptive Contextual Evidence (TRACE) integrates decoding history to anticipate upcoming evidence needs and select, retain, or replace active Fine-token groups. Selected Fine tokens augment the persistent Coarse context in the frozen backbone, enabling stage-specific evidence access without continuously attending to all visual tokens. On Qwen3-VL-4B, ViMoD outperforms all evaluated baselines on all eight reasoning benchmarks at a 20% target visual token budget, improving the mean normalized score by 39.0% over the strongest evaluated one-shot baseline. These gains are achieved with only 0.0546% additional trainable parameters relative to the frozen backbone.
[CV-51] Do Not Train Away Uncertainty: Early Uncertainty Anchored Calibration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12048
作者: Yutong Xie,Jiawei Tang,Zhenglin Hua,Yuxiang Ma,Si Qin,Yaxin Hou,Hui Liu,Junhui Hou,Yuheng Jia
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 18 pages, 9 figures, 11 tables
Abstract:Deep neural networks, including large language models, have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they are prone to overconfidence during training or fine-tuning. In this work, we observe a consistent phenomenon across different models that the early model is better calibrated, while later training or fine-tuning yields marginal accuracy gains but substantially increases calibration errors. Our analysis suggests that the early model retains uncertainty awareness in both its predictions and features, which is gradually lost with continued training. To avoid training away this uncertainty awareness, we propose \textbfEUA-Cal, a novel method that exploits the \textbfEarly model as an \textbfUncertainty \textbfAnchor for \textbfCalibration. EUA-Cal introduces early prediction regularization to preserve early predictive uncertainty and prototype structure regularization to exploit uncertainty reflected in the early feature space, jointly mitigating overconfidence. Extensive experiments on image classification and multiple-choice question answering across eight diverse models demonstrate that EUA-Cal outperforms state-of-the-art calibration methods.
[CV-52] FearCaut-Qwen : Affective Steering in a Vision-Language Model Shifts the Decision Criterion for Hazard Assessment
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11986
作者: Xiaoshan Zhou
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Vision-language models (VLMs) show great potential for damage assessment after a disaster, but a recurring deficiency is that they are reluctant to declare a hazard; that is, recall is low even when overall accuracy appears adequate. This study examines that deficiency by using signal detection theory to decompose the decision behavior into perceptual capability and decision-criterion placement. We then propose a novel method for correcting the over-conservative decision policy, inspired by the finding that fear makes humans risk-averse, and ask whether an affective representation associated with fear can be causally manipulated to similarly alter a VLM’s decision tendency. Using mechanistic interpretability, we localize a causally implicated affective circuit in the model and use activation steering to manipulate it while observing the effect on downstream prediction. The method is tested on a two-stage SeisMLLM pipeline built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct, which flags only 27.0% of genuinely unsafe buildings on the SeisMLLM-1K test split and never issues a false Red, an SDT criterion of c = +1.354, despite adequate evidence quality (d’ = 1.521). An affective direction is localized on emotion-rich natural scenes, causally validated by sparse-neuron knockout and distributed steering on held-out emotion data, and then injected into the building task. Fear-direction injection raises Red recall to 75.7% (p0.001), and subtracting the same direction suppresses Red predictions entirely, whereas norm-matched random and matched happiness directions show no significant effect. The mechanism is a shift in criterion (c=-1.515) while discrimination is not improved (d’=-0.493). These results show that VLM decisions can be adjusted at inference time without retraining and demonstrate how mechanistic interpretability can be used to diagnose and control VLM decision behaviors in engineering applications.
[CV-53] Learning Which Correspondences to Trust: Confidence-Weighted Event-Camera Localization in LiDAR Maps ICRA2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11967
作者: Panagiotis Kiousis,Kuangyi Chen,Jun Zhang,Friedrich Fraundorfer
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
备注: 8 pages, 8 figures/tables. Submitted to IEEE ICRA 2027 (under review). Code: this https URL
Abstract:Localizing an event camera against a pre-built LiDAR map can be cast as dense optical-flow estimation between a rendered depth view and an event image, followed by a Perspective-n-Point (PnP) solver over the induced 3D-2D correspondences. Existing pipelines rely on geometric consensus during pose estimation, but do not explicitly model the reliability or pose informativeness, i.e., how strongly a correspondence constrains the camera pose, of individual correspondences. We show that the natural way to learn it – using the per-correspondence error to constrain the learning of confidence – suffers from a depth-dependent bias: small pixel errors reside predominantly at large depths and do not lead to high pose informativeness. Instead, in our method (CELL), we learn a per-correspondence confidence end-to-end through the pose, using a differentiable probabilistic PnP whose log-partition term encourages weight configurations that yield a better-constrained pose distribution. The learned confidence is used in three ways: (i) it reweights the flow supervision in a decoupled training scheme that keeps pose gradients out of the flow/edge backbone; (ii) it drives a probabilistic correspondence selection at test time; and (iii) together with the network’s edge-probability it weights a final edge-matching refinement. We further design a partial-completion depth representation that adds signal without hallucinating across large gaps. On M3ED and DSEC our full system improves over the LEAR baseline on the majority of the evaluated sequences: it reduces the median translation error by up to 26.9% and the median rotation error by up to 15.8%.
[CV-54] Look Where You Can: Active View Selection for CAD Reconstruction under Occlusion
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11954
作者: Kartik Bali,Mahish Guru,Yiderigun Borjigin,Alexandra Starostina,Christian J. Cyron,Roland Aydin
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:CAD reconstruction methods assume a luxury reality rarely grants: unrestricted visual access to the object, photographed from any desired angle. Real objects, however, are scene-embedded, bolted against walls, wedged into corners, resting on floors, where the scene renders much of the view sphere unreachable and the remaining views unequally informative. We introduce \textbfSightCAD, a framework for parametric CAD reconstruction that treats view feasibility as a first-class constraint. In this work we consider objects from standard CAD benchmarks embedded in realistic indoor scenes with physically derived visibility constraints over a discrete view sphere. A learned view selector must choose K feasible views for a vision–language model (VLM) that generates executable CadQuery code, scored by geometric fidelity of the executed solid. Because reward arrives only after discrete view selection, autoregressive generation, and CAD-kernel execution, we propose a joint training paradigm in which the view selector and the CAD-generation VLM are trained together against this reward. The learned selection policy departs sharply from random, uniform, and coverage-greedy alternatives, outperforming surface-area maximization (SA-max) by up to 6.4 Intersection-over-Union (IoU) points across budgets K\in\1,\dots,5\ . The full system surpasses strong external baselines on scene-embedded, occluded multi-view renders of DeepCAD and Fusion360 objects ( +21 and +17 effective-mIoU points over the best baseline, respectively), as well as on test-time domain-canonicalized real images from the industrial T-LESS benchmark and on both synthetic and real images from the MP6D industrial metal-parts benchmark, while producing the highest rate of executable programs of any method compared (invalid-code rate \leq1.5% ).
[CV-55] Right Screen Wrong Transition: World Models as Verifiers for GUI Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11942
作者: Jiaming Zhang,Xuan Wang,Fuyao Zhang,Yang Cao,Lingjuan Lyu,Wei Yang Bryan Lim
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:A login screen that appears after a tap on Sign in is expected; the same screen after a tap on View order is an attack. For GUI agents, safety is therefore a property of the transition rather than of the screen, and a monitor that inspects only screens can be defeated by reusing a legitimate one. Judging a transition requires an expectation of what should have followed the action. Existing GUI world models provide one, but they output it as text, code, or images, so checking it against the observed screen requires a second model to judge the two. We argue that a world model meant for verification should instead predict in the space in which observations are encoded, and present LGWM, a decoder-free, action-conditioned world model that predicts the representation of the next screen directly, trained without semantic annotation on 1.85M real GUI transitions. Verification reduces to a vector comparison, and the same signal reveals whether a mismatch is harmful. We evaluate on RSWT-BENCH, a diagnostic where each credential screen appears under both a legitimate and a hijacked transition, so detectors that see only the screen are at chance by construction. The training-free score reaches 0.987 AUC at 17 ms per decision, on par with the strongest closed-source VLMs and about ten AUC points above generative GUI world models at over three orders of magnitude lower latency. The residual direction reaches 0.953 AUC at separating harmful from benign violations, where prompted VLMs are near chance. Further analyses show that the prediction is a usable future state rather than an anomaly score. World models have mostly served as simulators or planners; our results point to a third role, verification, for which predicting in representation space is the natural design.
[CV-56] Does Target Alignment Mean Target Recovery? An Evidence-Ladder Study of Adversarial Claims on Contrastive Encoders
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11938
作者: Tao Yang,Jianying Zhou
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 15 pages
Abstract:Adversarial attacks on vision-language models optimize an image toward a text target, then cite the attacked model’s similarity score as evidence of success. We ask whether that score - victim-space target alignment (VTS) - predicts recovery of the target by an independent model. We first build a measurement instrument: supervised judges outside the attacked geometry, real-target blend controls, shuffled-target negatives, and a reference level derived from a 50% target-image blend. Two preregistered studies then compare six contrastive encoders under a matched attack at three perturbation budgets. Robustly trained encoders (FARE, TeCoA, PMG, TRADES) transfer substantially more independent evidence than vanilla CLIP or SigLIP; all eight contrasts reject at the bootstrap floor. However, no cell reaches the blend-derived reference level. The three best cells fall within its replication band, leaving practical recovery undecided. Within robust encoders, per-sample alignment gain correlates with evidence gain ( \rho = 0.24-0.51 ); within vanilla CLIP the correlation is consistent with zero. Across encoders we find no monotone alignment-evidence relation. VTS is therefore informative only within a fixed robust encoder, and we provide a reporting protocol in its place.
[CV-57] Revisiting Identity and Spectra Dispersion in Media-Bridged Time Series Forecasting: Linking Multivariate Signals and Narrative Flows
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11924
作者: Jierui Lei,Wenjian Zhang,Qingyi Yang,Yuyang Hong,Fangzheng Chen,Zhengbo Zhang,Haina Tang,Shiming Xiang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Media-bridged time series forecasting is expanding to encompass traditional “multivariate” and emerging “multimodal” (e.g., through textual assistance). Existing Time Series Forecasting (TSF) models still rely on paradigm-specific relation, fusion, and temporal modules, hindering a common forecasting backbone across numerical and pre-aligned narrative-flow settings. To explore this, we propose the Multimedia Identity-Aware Prism Network (MIDAPN), a unified spatiotemporal forecasting backbone based on media-general graph adaptation and automatic temporal learning: (1) Following media pre-alignment, our Multimedia Identity-Aware Graph (MIDAG) revisits identity through static essence, dynamic behavior, and latent commonality, inducing affinities that extend variable-specific dependencies across media. Contextual Identity Modulation (CIM) further refines discriminative aggregation. (2) We develop Spectral Prism Convolution (SPConv) to automatically perform hierarchical temporal analysis, balancing coarse trends and fine-grained details. Meanwhile, its Adaptive Search Guidance configures a scale-efficient architecture for temporal-dimension reconstruction. These decoupled yet synergistic components jointly address media identity disentanglement and temporal-scale mismatch. Comprehensive evaluations involving 16 SOTA TSF models across 13 “multivariate” and 12 “multimodal” datasets, alongside targeted long-context comparisons against 14 time series foundation models and fused pretrained language models, demonstrate MIDAPN’s consistent superiority and broad shared backbone compatibility. The code is available at \hrefthis https URLthis https URL.
[CV-58] Beyond Visual Enhancement: Adaptive Multi-Context Steering to Mitigate LVLM Hallucinations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11907
作者: Shuran Ma,JiaLe Li,Yuxin Dong,Shan Zheng,Qingyun Jiang,Xiang Chen,Qi Zhu,Deyi Ji,Yifan Yang,Jianfeng Pan,Yu Tian,Xue Yang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Hallucination remains a significant challenge in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Existing training-free methods generally mitigate hallucinations through contrastive decoding or visual enhancement, often increasing the relative influence of visual evidence during generation. This raises a fundamental question: Can LVLMs dynamically regulate the contributions of different context sources to suppress hallucinations? In this work, we investigate and quantify how LVLMs coordinate multiple context sources during decoding and examine how this intrinsic behavior can guide hallucination mitigation. We find that LVLMs exhibit an intrinsic vision-attending tendency that can guide adaptive visual steering, while textual contexts can also contribute to hallucination mitigation. Motivated by these findings, we propose AIMS (Adaptive Information Multi-source Steering), a lightweight training-free framework that adaptively coordinates visual, prefilled textual, and generated contexts during decoding. Specifically, AIMS constructs compact prototypes for the three context domains and estimates their affinities with the current query to determine head-wise steering weights. The resulting multi-source steering direction is applied to the query representation, enabling adaptive context integration without additional model training or auxiliary forward passes. Extensive experiments across multiple LVLMs and decoding strategies demonstrate that AIMS effectively mitigates object hallucination while maintaining competitive general-purpose multimodal capabilities.
[CV-59] Relative Patch Response Learning for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11876
作者: Tianyu Wang,Ouxiang Li,Yanbin Hao,Zhenhua Tang,Shuo Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 19 pages, 6 figures, 13 tables
Abstract:Generative models can now synthesize highly realistic images, simultaneously increasing the risks of misinformation and visual forgery. Therefore, detecting AI-generated images becomes more essential, and a reliable detector must generalize to unseen generators and stay robust to unseen perturbations in the wild. Existing detectors are typically trained on either independently collected real and generated images or aligned real-generated pairs designed to mitigate content bias. Building on aligned pairs, recent methods form a mixed view by replacing some patches of the real image with their generated counterparts. However, we find that self-attention lets real and generated patches interact, so the feature of each patch no longer reflects its own source alone. This contextual shift makes a per-patch source label an imprecise target. To this end, we propose Relative Patch Response Learning (PRL). Instead of labeling each patch, PRL compares the same patch across two mixed views of an aligned pair and learns from its patch response, the change of its score between the views. (i) To give precise supervision under the contextual shift, a relative response objective measures the responses of source-changed patches against those of source-unchanged patches, which respond to the shift alone. (ii) To provide a reliable reference for the shift, a reference coherence objective keeps each group of source-unchanged patches moving as a whole. (iii) Since the two views contain different amounts of generated content, an area ranking objective asks the view with the larger generated area to have a higher mean patch score. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of PRL, which surpasses the best prior methods by 4.3% and 5.9% in average balanced accuracy across eight standard and three in-the-wild benchmarks, respectively.
[CV-60] Pose-Free Feed-Forward 3D Inpainting via Learnable Mask Attention and Support Token Refinement NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11857
作者: Jingyi Pan,Dan Xu,Qiong Luo
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted to NeurIPS 2026 (poster). Project page: this https URL
Abstract:3D scene inpainting aims to recover missing or occluded regions in edited 3D scenes, while ensuring geometric and textural consistency. Existing approaches, however, typically require accurately calibrated camera poses, which restricts their applicability in casual, in-the-wild scenarios and introduces additional preprocessing overhead. To overcome this limitation, we present FreeInpaint, a novel feed-forward framework that generates complete and 3D-consistent scenes directly from unposed multi-view images with masked regions. At its core, FreeInpaint extends a 3D foundation model to propagate masked regions from a reference view to other unposed views, bridging 3D reconstruction and scene inpainting while preserving the model’s native ability to recover camera poses and scene geometry. Our method addresses two key challenges in adapting feed-forward 3D foundation models to masked inputs. First, masked regions can corrupt cross-view correspondence reasoning, degrading pose estimation and geometry recovery. To address this, we introduce a Learnable Mask Attention mechanism that preserves the spatial anchoring of reliable observations while allowing masked regions to progressively absorb useful context in deeper layers. Second, under severe occlusions, a single forward pass often lacks sufficient appearance evidence for high-fidelity completion. Therefore, we propose a Support Token Refinement strategy, which injects diffusion-generated support evidence as confidence-weighted auxiliary tokens to refine under-observed regions while preserving the original spatial anchor. Extensive experiments across diverse datasets demonstrate that FreeInpaint achieves superior inpainting quality, eliminating the reliance on pre-computed camera poses while keeping a fast inference speed. The project page is this https URL.
[CV-61] VEDJE: Video-Efficient Discriminative Joint Encoder for Scalable Video-Text Retrieval
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11850
作者: Shahaf Wagner,Gabriele Serussi,Dan Ben Ami,Tomer Galanti,Chaim Baskin
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Finding the right video often requires distinguishing similar scenes in which different events occur. Joint matching improves retrieval, but processing rich video representations for each query is costly. VEDJE compresses features within sampled frames while keeping their representations separate in a reusable cache. Feature-change prediction supplies an auxiliary training signal that improves retrieval from the compressed cache without adding work at query time. On MSR-VTT, MSVD, DiDeMo, and ActivityNet, VEDJE improves R@1 over matched first-stage retrievers in both retrieval directions. On MSR-VTT, it reaches 59.8 text-to-video R@1 with a fine-tuned VideoCLIP-XL first stage. In the VideoPrism configuration, shrinking the per-video cache fourfold to 12 KiB preserves text-to-video recall within 0.2 points. These results show that accurate video search can operate on compact evidence, encoded once and reused as new queries arrive.
[CV-62] Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Event Localization via Complex-Valued Fusion BMVC
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11846
作者: Anirudh Praveen,Koteswar Rao Jerripothula,Pratik Joshi,Aveen Dayal,Neela Sawant
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM); Sound (cs.SD); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
备注: Accepted to British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2026
Abstract:Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Event Localization (OV-AVEL) labels each video segment with an event class, including classes that were never seen during training. The dominant pipeline uses a frozen multimodal foundation model (e.g. ImageBind) to embed the visual frame, the audio mel-spectrogram, and each candidate class name into a shared space, then computes two cosine similarities for each segment against each class: visual-text and audio-text. Existing methods then collapse this pair into a single scalar score with a fixed rule (geometric mean, weighted average) before taking the argmax. Instead, we compute complex-valued similarities and learn their fusion using a complex-valued neural network (CVNN). Each modality’s standard representation becomes the real part of our pipeline, and a paired companion stream supplies the imaginary part. We use imaginary part of iHSV for visual modality and CycleGAN-translated phase spectrogram for audio modality as these companion streams. This results in two complex similarities, which are then fused. While the vision and audio encoders remain frozen, only the temporal-attention blocks and the fusion CVNN are trained. The four-stream complex architecture sets a new state of the art on both OV-AVEL benchmarks. On the open (unseen-class) split of OV-AVEBench we reach 66.5/59.1/54.1% Acc/Seg-F1/Event-F1 (+1.6/+4.1/+6.6 over the previously reported fine-tuned baseline), with consistent gains for seen classes as well. We also modify AVE dataset for this task and observe that our architecture reaches 60.7/51.9/50.4% Acc/Seg-F1/Event-F1, achieving state-of-the-art OV-AVEL results on it as well. We also propose a two-stream alternative, which also sees great improvements over the baseline.
[CV-63] From Suppression to Repair: Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Localized Distribution Alignment
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11826
作者: Chen Zhao,Xingping Dong,Jiachun Shi,Liang Peng,Chong Wang,Zhen Lei,Ran He,Bo Du
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Object hallucination remains a major obstacle for large vision-language models (LVLMs) to generate reliable content. An intuitive mitigation strategy is to suppress hallucination-related components in hidden representations. However, these components may also contain useful information, and suppressing them can weaken the model’s multimodal capabilities. In this paper, we propose ResOT, a training-free method that repairs representations at inference time through localized distribution alignment. Specifically, ResOT projects dominant hallucinated directions away from the faithful subspace, forming a low-dimensional residual subspace for intervention. Within this subspace, ResOT uses Gaussian optimal transport (OT) to align the hallucinated distribution with the faithful one. The resulting map defines repair targets with minimal changes to the original representations. At inference, ResOT adaptively controls how far each token state moves toward its OT target. Experiments on three representative LVLMs show that ResOT substantially reduces object hallucination while improving image caption quality and multimodal performance across multiple benchmarks. Code will be released.
[CV-64] From Pixels to Structure: Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Document OCR and Structured JSON Extraction ICDAR2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11818
作者: Uddipan Basu Bir,Vincent Christlein,Andreas Maier,Mathias Zinnen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 17 pages. Published in Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2026, LNCS vol. 16974, Springer. Code: this https URL
Abstract:While massive, closed-source Vision-Language Models (VLMs) set strong benchmarks for document understanding, their dependence on commercial APIs limits adoption in institutional archives due to data autonomy concerns, recurring costs, and the environmental footprint of hyperscale computing. This is especially acute in heritage digitization, where documents include historical handwriting, domain-specific terminology (e.g., jewelry, prehistory, architecture), and non-standard layouts requiring high-dimensional structured extraction. We present a comparative study of eight open-source lightweight VLMs (up to 7B parameters) for Optical Character Recognition (OCR)-to-structure across three university heritage collections. Given a document image, models must extract text and generate schema-compliant JSON, enabling automatic validation and downstream use. We evaluate models under a constraint-aware protocol across zero-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning settings, measuring extraction fidelity and structured-output quality using Character Error Rate (CER), Approximate Normalized Levenshtein Similarity (ANLS*), and mean Average Precision F1 (mAP-F1). Against a fine-tuning baseline, we further test the independent impact of (i) hyperparameter optimization, (ii) classical image preprocessing (illumination flattening, denoising, and CLAHE), and (iii) multi-stage training. Finally, we analyze the trade-off between dataset-specific fine-tuning and a single multi-dataset checkpoint, where joint training enables one model to operate across collections but can shift performance between datasets. Overall, we show that carefully adapted VLMs with up to 7B parameters can provide a sustainable, private, high-performing alternative to manual transcription or commercial black-box systems, and we offer actionable guidance for heritage institutions seeking institution-controlled OCR-to-JSON extraction.
[CV-65] Fast Pose Tracking of Rigid Objects with Compact Pose Graph Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11815
作者: Xiaojie Zhang,Tom Fischer,Viktor Larsson,Eddy Ilg
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Tracking a novel object’s 6D pose over long horizons currently requires either expensive onboarding or a reconstruction maintained throughout the sequence. This makes current trackers impractical for robotic manipulation and augmented reality, which need trackers that are ready to use and run in real time. We show that a lightweight tracking module can be applied on top of a wide range of correspondence estimation methods to keep drifts bounded while maintaining fast runtime. Our key idea is to avoid point-based optimization in the pose graph and operate only on relative pose constraints, which we weight by a derived uncertainty from the geometric alignment. This makes optimization independent of the number of correspondences while avoiding the direct inclusion of noisy point measurements, leading to fast and robust long-term tracking. Across four real-world benchmarks, our approach achieves tracking accuracy comparable to reconstruction-based trackers with a fraction of the optimization cost. Overall, these results suggest that a compact and reliable pose graph optimization can provide long-horizon consistency at substantially lower computational cost.
[CV-66] Seek-and-View Reasoning for Multi-View Spatial Understanding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11810
作者: Qixiang Chen,Cheng Zhang,Fucai Ke,Chi-Wing Fu,Jianfei Cai,Jingwen Ye
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Project page: this https URL ; Code: this https URL
Abstract:Existing approaches to multi-view spatial reasoning operate largely on sparse input views. Vision-language models (VLMs) are thus restricted to understand a scene and infer spatial relations within these fixed views, leading to fragile cross-view alignment and geometry-to-language bottleneck. To address these issues, we formulate a novel Seek-and-View reasoning approach to find implicit cross-view spatial evidence by locating a question-relevant view to support the spatial reasoning. To realize this approach, we propose Vantage, a training-free model-agnostic reasoning framework that pairs a VLM with a 3D foundation model: a viewpoint-grounded reasoning stage for question analysis and view planning, followed by a geometry-grounded evidence augmentation stage to effectively synthesize and incorporate visual evidence into the final reasoning. Comprehensive experiments on six VLMs demonstrate consistent improvements on five benchmarks without fine-tuning. Overall, by revealing spatial evidence through view-grounded reasoning, Vantage can largely reduce reliance on language-based cross-view alignment and improve multi-view spatial understanding. Our code is available at this https URL.
[CV-67] Phase-aware video generation for physics-grounded dynamics and interactions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11791
作者: Jingfeng Ou,Kun Wang,Rui Zhao,Jingwei Guan,Limin Wang,Chao Dong,Xingyu Zeng
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 31 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables, including appendix
Abstract:Generating physically plausible videos for solid-gas dynamics is challenging as different phases exhibit distinct dynamics yet remain coupled through physical interactions. We present PAVG, a Phase-Aware Video Generator for solid-gas dynamics and interactions. It employs a dual-branch architecture to explicitly model the distinct dynamics of solids and gases, while spatiotemporal cross-attention captures their physical interactions. This design enables PAVG to preserve phasespecific motion characteristics while producing physically consistent responses across phases. To facilitate this task, we further construct a simulation corpus comprising over 700K physical trajectories across diverse solid, gas, and solid-gas interaction scenarios. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that our PAVG produces videos with improved motion adherence, physical plausibility, and visual quality compared with existing approaches.
[CV-68] Skill-V: Verifiable Self-Evolving Skill Library for Interactive Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11781
作者: Jie Ma,Zhipeng Qian,Yufei Ma,Zihan Liang,Jiayi Ji,Qingpeng Cai,Ben Chen,Peng Jiang,Xiaoshuai Sun
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Interactive agents can turn experience into reusable skills, yet existing self-evolving skill libraries primarily improve by accumulating new knowledge. Failures may lead to new skills, while previously stored skills are less often revisited as new evidence arrives. However, growth alone does not ensure reliability, as a retrieved skill may be inapplicable under the current task conditions, and an existing skill may encode a mis-specified operational boundary. Reliable skill evolution therefore requires not only adding knowledge, but also testing and revising what is already stored. We introduce Skill-V, a verifiable self-evolving skill library. To make stored knowledge testable, we propose representing skills as versioned, falsifiable contracts that link semantic intent to observable behavioral criteria. We use environment outcomes to drive library evolution. Specifically, task failures motivate skill addition, while disagreements between contract evaluations and task outcomes guide revisions to existing skill boundaries. To validate these revisions, we require them to preserve protected semantic constraints and satisfy non-regression criteria for rubric-outcome metrics on historical replay evidence. Finally, we employ an applicability-aware filter to exclude candidates judged confidently inapplicable to the current task. Across ALFWorld and WebShop, Skill-V achieves success rates of 95.3% and 85.9%, respectively, while maintaining a more compact skill library than growth-oriented baselines. Applicability-aware filtering reduces incorrect skill invocations, and outcome-grounded revisions correct mis-specified skill boundaries without degrading performance on previously observed evidence. These results show that reliable skill evolution requires more than accumulating experience: the library must learn which knowledge to retain, when to revise it, and when it should be applied.
[CV-69] From Video Clips to Creation Trajectory: Sora100K for AI-Native Video Creation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11770
作者: Sicong Yang,Ruihuan Yang,Jian Lu,Jianfei Yuan,Xiaodong Cun,Xiuli Bi
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 18 pages, 17 figures
Abstract:AI-Native video creation is shifting from isolated video clips toward iterative video creation workflows. However, existing datasets remain largely video clips, representing video generation and editing as separate tasks rather than connected stages of a video creation workflow. In this paper, we introduce Sora100K, a dataset that represents the AI-Native video creation workflow as a structured video creation trajectory. Specifically, we first identify video creation trajectories and decompose them into three subsets according to their structural roles: text-to-video generation records as roots, single-turn video editing records as editing edges, and multi-turn video editing records as complete trajectories. Then, we use a VLM to assign semantic annotations for generation roots and editing-operation annotations for editing edges. A strict construction pipeline further reconstructs source-to-edit lineage, editing order, and intermediate video states while ensuring data quality. Finally, we perform lightweight adaptation on LTX-2 models to assess the supervision value of Sora100K. The results show improvements in visual quality, multi-shot generation, and cross-shot consistency, while successive-turn evaluation reveals that following multi-turn editing instructions remains challenging. Sora100K establishes a new data foundation for AI-Native video creation beyond isolated video clips and toward structured video creation trajectory. The dataset and supplementary materials are publicly available at this https URL.
[CV-70] Memory Forcing: Attendable Mid-Horizon History for Streaming Video Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11756
作者: Jiaming Zhang,Xinyu Wang,Huafeng Shi,Gangshan Wu,Limin Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 10 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:Autoregressive video diffusion enables causal video streaming without a bidirectional pass over the full clip, but existing few-step systems usually retain only the opening and most recent frames in a fixed-size KV cache. Once an event leaves this window, later frames can no longer attend to it, a failure we term mid-horizon forgetting. We present Memory Forcing, a few-step streaming method that preserves this missing history without increasing the cache size. Its Archive \ Working Banks partition the cache into sink, archive, and working regions, retaining diverse intermediate events alongside recent motion under fixed memory. Because absolute temporal indices drift outside the training range, Bank-aware RoPE reassigns indices at attention time so each bank remains distinguishable. At 1.3B, Memory Forcing leads on longer clips, shows the smallest drop from 5s to 60s among methods reporting all four lengths, and preserves subjects and scenes through leave-and-return. The same design scales to Wan2.2 5B, producing more physically plausible, realistic, and dynamic videos and, to our knowledge, the first public 5B model on this forcing line.
[CV-71] Dino Forcing Flow Models: Do not denoise what you can predict
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11751
作者: Arijit Ghosh,Lucas Degeorge,Paul Couairon,Alexei A Efros,Vicky Kalogeiton,David Picard
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Co-denoising pretrained representations such as DINO can substantially improve the training speed and quality of flow matching models, but it introduces a second denoising trajectory and requires carefully designed schedules. We propose a simpler alternative: predict the pretrained representation directly, then condition the model on its own prediction. This removes the need for a second ODE and any representation-specific denoising schedules, while retaining the benefits of representation guidance. Our approach converges substantially faster and achieves better generation quality as measured by FID score. On ImageNet, it outperforms the state of the art in latent space at 2x fewer epochs than prior methods; in pixel space, it improves FID over comparable prior methods by more than 20%. These results support a simple principle: do not denoise what you can predict. Our code is openly available at this https URL.
[CV-72] Streaming-Aware Diffusion for Real-Time Video Super-Resolution via Cross-Step Attention
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11746
作者: Harris Partaourides,Sotirios Chatzis
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Real-time video super-resolution requires high spatio-temporal fidelity under strict latency constraints, challenging diffusion models due to their iterative sampling cost and limited temporal coordination. We propose a streaming-aware framework that adapts pretrained single-image latent diffusion models for efficient video super-resolution (VSR) by exploiting the sequential structure of video streams. Our Cross-Step Attention mechanism reuses intermediate denoising features across adjacent frames and diffusion steps, enabling temporal information exchange without explicit temporal modeling. We further introduce Trajectory-Coupled Diffusion Scheduling, which aligns adjacent diffusion states and provides cleaner intermediate representations for cross-step conditioning, improving temporal coherence. These components are integrated into a streaming inference pipeline that incrementally propagates latent states across frames, reducing the effective computational complexity from O(N \cdot S) to O(N + S) for N frames and S diffusion steps. Experiments on REDS4 and YouHQ40-Test demonstrate improved perceptual quality and temporal realism while maintaining frame-wise stability. Our method achieves over 40 FPS at 512 \times 512 resolution after cold start, enabling real-time VSR without explicit temporal modeling.
[CV-73] owards Unified Evaluation of Prompt Enhancers for Video Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11736
作者: Yawen Shao,Yubo Zhu,Ziyun Dai,Zixun Fang,Kai Zhu,Zeyinzi Jiang,Yufeng Ai,Siyang Sun,Haolan Xue,Yu Shang,Yuxiang Bao,Zoubin Bi,Jingming Luo,Jie Xiao,Chaojie Mao,Zhehan Kan,Hongchen Luo,Yu Liu,Sheng Zhong,Wei Tong,Xueyang Fu,Yang Cao,Wei Zhai,Zheng-Jun Zha
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Modern video generators can realize increasingly complex visual narratives, positioning the prompt enhancer (PE) as a critical bridge from concise user instructions and multimodal references to structured cinematic plans. However, existing PE evaluation relies on rendered videos, imposing substantial computational and human costs, slowing PE training and iteration, and conflating PE quality with downstream generator behavior. To address this gap, we introduce PEBench, the first unified benchmark for direct PE evaluation across text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video prompt enhancement. It comprises 1,100 expert-verified cases and 1,005 visual assets, spanning 35 fine-grained tasks with diverse temporal, cinematic, audiovisual, and multi-reference requirements. In addition, we develop PEBench evaluation, an evidence-grounded framework that combines modality-aware fact extraction with rubric-based assessment across 24 criteria. Our systematic evaluation of representative open- and closed-source PE methods reveals an emerging shift from fine-grained descriptive expansion toward intent-preserving cinematic planning, while the caption-reconstruction and forward-refinement methods show complementary strengths in cinematic coverage and semantic fidelity or internal coherence, respectively. Human validation shows that PEBench scores align closely with expert judgments of enhanced prompts and downstream videos from Wan3.0 and MiniMax-H3, indicating that prompt-level evaluation reliably reflects downstream utility.
[CV-74] Onboard Marine Anomaly Detection on Φsat-2: From Simulation-Based Development to In-Orbit Demonstration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11735
作者: Clotilde Szywala,Thomas Goudemant,Marjorie Bellizzi,Benjamin Francesconi,Adrien Girard
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Onboard Artificial Intelligence can improve responsiveness and bandwidth efficiency of Earth Observation systems by processing data directly on the satellite. This paper presents the experience gained from the development, onboard integration, and post-launch adaptation of a lightweight marine anomaly detection pipeline deployed on the European Space Agency’s \Phi sat-2 mission. The application combines sea segmentation, self-supervised feature encoding of marine regions, generic anomaly detection based on deviations from a normal sea state, and optional characterization of selected anomaly types. Before launch, the pipeline was trained and validated on simulated \Phi sat-2 imagery to assess algorithmic performance and compatibility with resource-constrained onboard hardware. After integration and functional validation in the mission environment, early experiments on real \Phi sat-2 acquisitions revealed a significant mismatch between simulated and in-orbit data. The pipeline was therefore retrained on real Level-1 imagery using an improved annotation strategy to better handle ambiguous marine regions, substantially enhancing performance. Beyond demonstrating the onboard feasibility of the application, the \Phi sat-2 experience highlights the importance of robust annotation strategies and sensor-aware design, and shows that simulation-based development is valuable for pre-flight risk reduction, while reliable scientific validation requires representative in-orbit data and should be clearly distinguished from functional validation.
[CV-75] MultiWorldBench: Do Independently Controlled Views Describe One Shared World?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11723
作者: Zhangbo Xu,Ruoxi Zhang,Rui Hu,Yisong Wang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 31 pages, 17 figures, 3 tables
Abstract:Multiplayer world models must ensure that independently controlled views remain consistent with one shared and persistent world. We introduce MultiWorldBench, a diagnostic Minecraft benchmark containing 495 case configurations across seven task suites and ten capabilities, including independent control, cross-view motion, shared-state synchronization, persistence, structural reasoning, concurrent interaction, and delayed revisit. We evaluate Solaris, Gamma-World, and MineWorld, using Engine GT as a reference. Gamma-World achieves the highest ten-capability average among the generated systems at 21.39, followed by Solaris at 20.88 and MineWorld at 1.89, while Engine GT reaches 91.69. Gamma-World performs better on several control, shared-state, and revisit capabilities, whereas Solaris leads in cross-view motion and race-condition consistency. Nevertheless, all generated systems score at most 8.00 on state persistence and 1.33 on structural consistency, and none succeeds in spatial reasoning or building-identity preservation. Human preferences produce the same overall ranking and show strong alignment with the automatic evaluation, with a mean dimension-level Spearman correlation of 0.96. These results show that plausible individual views do not yet constitute a coherent multiplayer world.
[CV-76] HI3D 3.0 (Twinkle3D): Object-specific 3D Asset Generation with High Resolution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11685
作者: Ziying Li,Shengchu Zhao,Huiang He,Yiyang Chen,Jianwen Huang,Bailin Li,Changhao Li,Jianhui Li,Jie Li,Ruiyang Liu,Yibo Luo,Tengjiao Sun,Pei Tang,Shiwen Wang,Jiaqi Wu,Kang Wu,Kaiqiao Yang,Zherui Yang,Hu Zhang,Xuezhi Zhao,Xinhe Zheng,Yukun Li,Heliang Zheng,Rongfei Jia
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Hi3D 3.0 (Twinkle3D) Technical Report
Abstract:Image-to-3D generation has become increasingly capable of producing objects that closely resemble the input image, and an outstanding challenge is to reproduce the depicted object itself, including the specific geometry that defines it. Inscriptions, brand marks, and repeated structures are frequently distorted or lost, despite being critical to object identity. We present Hi3D 3.0, an image-to-3D generation system targeting object-specific fidelity, with Twinkle3D as its geometry model for generating watertight triangle meshes at 2048^3 resolution. Twinkle3D advances high-fidelity geometry generation along four dimensions. First, while O-Voxel/FaithC offers high representational precision, it often suffers from poor surface quality and non-watertight geometry. We address both issues while retaining its 2048^3 -level precision. Second, we scale diffusion generation to sequences of up to 300K geometric tokens through a redesigned DiT architecture and large-scale distributed training optimizations, reducing training time per step from approximately ten minutes to ten seconds. Third, subsequent refinement cannot fully compensate for errors introduced during initial generation; we therefore strengthen both global shape and local detail in the initial generation stage, and the resulting single-stage model surpasses prior two-stage pipelines with 512^3 refinement. Finally, we introduce a fine-grained image-3D cross-modal interaction mechanism that strengthens correspondence between visual evidence and geometric tokens, improving the recovery of object-specific structures. We evaluate geometric fidelity using alignment metrics derived from silhouettes and normal fields. Hi3D 3.0 outperforms four commercial systems across all reported metrics, recovering 82.1% of inscribed characters at 98.2% precision, compared with 21.7% recall for the strongest competitor.
[CV-77] VESSI - VLM-Enhanced Support for Surveillance and Investigations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11674
作者: Saverio Cavasin,Pietro Tedeschi,Mattia Tamiazzo,Alessandro Brighente,Simone Milani,Mauro Conti
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 12-page main manuscript, 3 main figures; supplementary material included
Abstract:Automated video surveillance analysis has become a critical component of intelligence infrastructures and Law Enforcement agencies. Traditional systems lack the semantic module for comprehensive situational awareness and forensic tasks, limiting their ability to interpret events meaningfully or support post-incident investigations. This slows operational insight and increases the burden on human analysts. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer promising pathways to bridge this gap. To address this, we propose VLM-Enhanced Support for Surveillance and Investigations (VESSI), a VLM-based framework designed to enhance automated video surveillance analysis through prompt-driven interrogation of video sequences where salient visual features are converted into textual descriptions. We test our framework with four state-of-the-art models. Since most datasets for this task are unlabeled, we also propose the Composite Model Utility Score (CMUS) to assess VLM performance. Experimental results show that our solution substantially improves the analysis capabilities of human operators and enhances the flexibility of automated surveillance systems. In our evaluation, the most reliable model flagged potentially relevant activity in more than 66% of the videos while reducing review time by more than 85%, offering a practical balance between selectivity and efficiency. The model ordering produced by the reference-free CMUS evaluation was reproduced by the normal-video CMUS evaluation and matched the false-positive-rate ordering obtained from 5,909 manually referenced frames. This agreement supports the operational use of the score within the evaluated setting.
[CV-78] Perceptually Grounded and Semantics-Aware Evaluation for Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11669
作者: Nick Milkin,Lanmiao Liu,Esam Ghaleb,Asli Ozyurek,Zerrin Yumak
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Holistic and semantics-aware co-speech gesture generation has advanced rapidly, yet evaluation remains behind: objective metrics do not consistently reflect human perception, and semantic appropriateness remains difficult to quantify. We present a perceptually grounded and semantics-aware benchmark that combines standardized model comparison, human-centered metric validation, and fine-grained semantic evaluation. We first curate a list of 13 objective metrics covering different aspects, including distributional similarity, geometric fidelity, kinematic quality, cross-modal synchrony, and semantic appropriateness. For the semantic-appropriateness category, we propose a new metric, Semantic Gesture Preservation (SGP), which measures how far semantic gestures in the ground truth are preserved in the generated gestures. For this, we augment the BEAT2 dataset’s annotations using a multi-modal LLM. We then conduct a perceptual study where 101 participants score generated gestures among five dimensions, including human-likeness, motion diversity, absence of animation errors, speech timing and content match. We systematically analyze objective metric–subjective score correlations. Unlike Semantic Score (SC), which shows no significant association with the evaluated perceptual dimensions, SGP is selectively aligned with speech-aware human judgments. We construct five target-specific composite metrics aligned with the subjective dimensions. These composites improve perceptual alignment across all five dimensions, with the largest gains for absence of animation errors and content match, indicating that complementary objective signals can better approximate human judgments than individual metrics alone. Overall, our results show that objective metrics require validation against subjective evaluations.
[CV-79] DisFace3DNet: Explainable Facial Attractiveness Prediction via 3D Component Disentanglement
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11656
作者: Fenggui Rao,Yan Luximon,Jie Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Includes supplemental materials
Abstract:Facial attractiveness prediction usually assigns one overall rating, leaving the roles of shape, appearance, and viewing conditions implicit. We propose DisFace3DNet, which uses 3D component disentanglement to learn seven component reference scores from overall ratings with auxiliary weak semantic supervision, without human-labeled component targets. Designated 3D representations and image cues feed jointly learned routes for identity, skin, hair, light, background, expression, and pose. A constrained fit then combines five static and two signed dynamic scores into the overall rating, exposing each component’s numerical contribution and supporting component-specific comparisons across images. On SCUT-FBP5500, DisFace3DNet achieves a Pearson correlation of 0.8904\pm0.0063 (mean \pm standard deviation across five folds) with average human ratings; its component terms reconstruct every held-out prediction to numerical precision. Skin, hair, and facial shape account for the largest component-wise prediction variation. Human evaluation supports the score directions for facial shape, skin, and hair; expression agreement is weaker. DisFace3DNet thus connects overall prediction to quantitative analysis of the facial and contextual cues entering each estimate.
[CV-80] abula Rasa: Monte Carlo estimation of unit-variance noise with controlled spatio-temporal correlation KR SIGGRAPH
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11653
作者: Tobias Ritschel,Yang Zhou,Nick Milef,Mikhail Dereviannykh,Chen Liu,Christophe Hery,Carl Marshall
类目: Graphics (cs.GR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Conference Papers. Code: this https URL
Abstract:We suggest a method to generate time-varying Gaussian noise with controlled variance and controlled temporal correlation. This noise is used in several downstream tasks for temporal control and temporal coherence. The core technical idea is to phrase this problem as joint Monte-Carlo estimation of both a classic pixel reconstruction and estimation of variance using the concept of “sketching” from the database literature. We demonstrate that our method allows temporal control for downstream tasks with simpler and faster code than previous methods.
[CV-81] Revisiting Handcrafted Minutiae Detection: A Simple and Effective Open Source Baseline for Modern Fingerprint Workflows
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11641
作者: Raffaele Cappelli
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Handcrafted minutiae detection algorithms remain fundamental to biometric science and forensic practice due to their full auditability, adherence to international standards, and operational independence from training datasets or GPU hardware. However, current open-source traditional baselines are severely outdated, relying almost exclusively on legacy C/C++ codebases that lack seamless integration with modern scientific software ecosystems. To bridge this gap, the present work introduces SBMEX (Skeleton-Based Minutiae EXtraction), a fast and deterministic minutiae detection method integrated into the open source \textttpyfing package. SBMEX achieves high computational throughput by employing a dual Look-Up Table architecture that replaces runtime neighborhood scanning during Crossing Number computation and skeleton tracking. Additionally, it incorporates a continuous quality scoring framework driven by tracking path length, dual ridge-valley skeleton fusion, and spatial density decay. Rigorous evaluation on NIST SD302 datasets demonstrates that SBMEX delivers feature extraction accuracy comparable to or outperforming traditional open-source baselines without fine-tuning, while achieving a drastic reduction in minutiae detection latency relative to classical Crossing Number Python implementations.
[CV-82] Neural Networks for Temporal Pattern Recognition and Dynamic Arm Gesture Speed Estimation for Robot Control
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11631
作者: Milán Zsolt Bagladi,László Gulyás
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 10 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. Published in Proceedings of the Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2026 (IntRob '26), June 18-19, 2026, Budapest, Hungary, ACM
Abstract:Deploying intelligent robotic systems that interact with humans through gestures requires neural networks capable of recognizing diverse temporal patterns. We present a systematic benchmark of ten abstract sequential tasks–five permutation-invariant (set) and five order-dependent (sequence) problems–evaluated across eighteen neural network architectures spanning recurrent, convolutional, attention-based, and set-function families. Beyond the core architecture-task grid, we explore numerous preprocessing and target-variable transformations, yielding more than 250 distinct experimental configurations. All variants are trained and tested under strictly identical conditions (fixed random seeds, shared hyperparameters, shared data splits) to ensure fair and reproducible comparison. Ranking across all ten tasks reveals four consistently top-performing architectures–BiGRU, TCN, Conv1D, and GRUReLU–all compact enough for real-time deployment (under 2,000 parameters in the benchmark setting). Based on this ranking, we apply three architecturally diverse top models (BiGRU, TCN, and GRUReLU) to a practical robotics problem: estimating the execution speed of dynamic arm gestures from skeletal keypoint sequences. Three speed interpretations (peak count, period time, and mean spike spacing) are evaluated on a custom dataset of eight traffic-related gesture classes comprising 256,710 frames recorded via OpenPose. The best configuration achieves a mean absolute error of 0.198 on the peak-count interpretation, corresponding to roughly 5% relative error, while the period-time interpretation reaches approximately 4% relative error, and the mean spike spacing interpretation approximately 8% relative error. These results demonstrate that neural networks can reliably estimate gesture speed from skeletal data, opening a path toward speed-aware gesture-controlled robotic systems.
[CV-83] AM: Task-Aware Memory Distillation for Efficient Spatiotemporal Prediction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11617
作者: Yuqi Li,Xiaoqin Feng,Fan Xu,Weilun Feng,Chuanguang Yang,Yingli Tian,Hao Wu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 19 pages
Abstract:Knowledge distillation enables efficient spatiotemporal prediction by transferring knowledge from an accurate teacher to a compact student. However, matching outputs or features independently for each sample leaves cross-sample predictive structure underused. Exploiting this structure requires representations and historical references that reflect the dynamics of each task. We propose TAM, a Task-Aware Memory Distillation framework that organizes a frozen teacher’s knowledge into a bounded, retrievable history. Memory entries encode latent features, forecast changes, or flow residuals, while task-specific selection rules identify relevant historical references. The student either matches the teacher’s similarity distribution over shared references or regresses observation-conditioned residual prototypes. These objectives complement supervised prediction and conventional distillation. The teacher, memory, and auxiliary adapters are used only during training, leaving student inference unchanged. We evaluate TAM on video prediction, weather forecasting, and traffic flow prediction across multiple teacher-student configurations. Averaged over four paired runs, adding TAM improves SSIM on all six video datasets and reduces MSE on five relative to the corresponding KD baselines. Mean paired MSE reductions reach 1.86% on KittiCaltech, 1.93% on WeatherBench with a gSTA teacher, and 1.01% on TaxiBJ. These results demonstrate the utility of historical teacher supervision across distinct forecasting tasks without additional student inference cost.
[CV-84] PointVGGT: Zero-Shot Multiview RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Visual Geometry Foundation Priors
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11612
作者: Haobo Jiang,Liang Yu,Jianmin Zheng
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 19 Pages, 6 figures
Abstract:This paper addresses multiview RGB-D point cloud registration, aiming to estimate global rigid poses for unordered RGB-D scans and align them in a metrically consistent coordinate frame. The conventional pairwise-then-global paradigm suffers from locally optimized pairwise registration, severe error propagation and high computational burden. In particular, existing methods typically treat RGB data as a mere auxiliary matching cue and overlook the holistic geometric priors (e.g., camera poses and 3D models) encoded across image sequences. This paper introduces PointVGGT, a zero-shot framework built upon a novel \emphfoundation-then-refinement paradigm that systematically leverages visual geometry foundation models (e.g., VGGT) as the computational backbone for robust, training-free multiview RGB-D registration. In the foundation stage, we directly recover metrically consistent global poses (without any pairwise estimation) by grounding the scale-ambiguous pose predictions of the foundation model against metric depth observations. In the refinement stage, we introduce an efficient voxelized spatial hashing mechanism that exploits the globally coherent 3D reconstruction (induced by the foundation model) as a shared spatial anchor, enabling dense multiview correspondences in near-linear time. On top of this, an IRLS-based robust motion-only bundle adjustment is performed using a conjugate gradient solver to jointly minimize the correspondence and reprojection residuals for multiview pose refinement. Extensive experiments on indoor/object-centric/outdoor datasets verify the outstanding zero-shot registration accuracy and computational efficiency of our proposed method.
[CV-85] Beyond Report Imitation: Clinically Aware Multi-Image Ultrasound Report Generation from Visible Evidence BMVC2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11610
作者: Yuchen Yang,Xin Wang,Lufan Wang,Yinghong Pan,Yujuan Feng,Yuqing Yang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to BMVC 2026. Code: this https URL
Abstract:Generating ultrasound reports from multiple images requires aggregating clinical evidence across views, yet archived key frames capture only part of the dynamic examination. Raw-report imitation is therefore misaligned with visual supervision: content that is clinically valid for the full examination may be unverifiable from the images available to a model. This gap creates a clinical behavior alignment problem. A model must preserve visible findings, avoid diagnostic reversals and unsupported completion, and not collapse into conservative templates. We propose CAMEO, a Clinically Aware Multi-image Evidence-grounded Orchestration framework for ultrasound report generation. Stage I learns ultrasound visual-language primitives; Stage II performs Cross-View Evidence Grounding by distilling trusted visible report points into multi-image QA and report-style supervision; and Stage III performs Clinically Aware Preference Alignment using clinical-error-oriented preference pairs. From USReport, we construct USReport-Distilled with 17,670 evidence-grounded paired-image training instances and USReport-Pref with 21,869 preference pairs; we additionally use 25,631 PubMedVision-US ultrasound instruction samples for domain adaptation and multi-image instruction tuning. On the primary USReport-Distilled benchmark, CAMEO improves over EchoVLM from 0.25 to 0.40 BLEU-1, 0.28 to 0.45 ROUGE-1, and 0.27 to 0.43 METEOR, while raising ClinicalScore from 55.02 to 74.20. These results underscore the value of evidence-grounded supervision, clinically aware alignment, and clinically structured evaluation for reliable ultrasound report generation.
[CV-86] S3Geo: Structure-Semantic Synergistic Learning for Cross-View Geo-Localization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11608
作者: Ziqian Mo,Hill Zhang,Haosheng Tan,Ling Li,Jiaheng Wei
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) aims to estimate geographic locations by matching images captured from different viewpoints, such as drone and satellite views. Existing methods mainly rely on visual representations, but often fail to jointly model fine-grained structural correspondences and semantic priors, making them prone to confusion between visually similar but semantically different regions, and thus limiting robustness under large viewpoint variations. To address these challenges, we propose \textbfS ^3 Geo, a structure-semantic synergistic learning framework for cross-view matching. Specifically, we first introduce a Decoupled Query Pooling (DQP) module to extract a compact set of region-aware features from dense tokens, enabling explicit modeling of local structural patterns. We then design a query-level contrastive learning scheme with an optimal transport (OT)-based formulation to establish soft correspondences under cross-view spatial misalignment. Furthermore, we incorporate a Semantic Knowledge Distillation (SKD) strategy from a frozen CLIP teacher to transfer semantic priors and relational structures, thereby improving discrimination on hard negatives. By operating synergistically, the semantic priors provide robust contextual filtering, which guides the structural module to establish precise spatial alignments. Experiments on the University-1652 and SUES-200 datasets demonstrate that \textbfS ^3 Geo consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches without increasing inference complexity, validating the effectiveness of jointly modeling structural and semantic information for CVGL.
[CV-87] SV-TAD: Native Sparse Convs for Efficient Temporal Action Detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11579
作者: Ricardo Pizarro,Roberto Valle,José M. Buenaposada,Luis M. Bergasa,Luis Baumela
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:To adapt billion-parameter Vision Transformers for long-video understanding, recent methods freeze the backbone and train lightweight convolutional modules. While effective for parameter-efficient training, existing adapters do not reduce inference-time computation, leaving scalability with respect to video length largely unaddressed. Token selection can reduce attention cost by pruning redundant tokens, but it breaks the spatial grid structure required by convolutional adapters. This forces an expensive dense reconstruction, nullifying much of the potential speedup. We address this by introducing native sparse 2D convolutions, a primitive that allows these adapters, for the first time, to operate directly and efficiently on dynamically pruned token sets. We integrate this primitive into SV-TAD, an adapter framework for temporal action detection, reducing VideoMAEv2-L computation by up to 64% and achieving 2.2x faster inference, while maintaining state-of-the-art accuracy on THUMOS-14 and ActivityNet-1.3. When scaled to InternVideoNext-L, our approach surpasses the previous state of the art at roughly half its computational cost. Moreover, the sparse formulation naturally supports auxiliary task tokens, which improves fine-grained assembly detection on ATTACH.
[CV-88] CoCam4D: Geometry-Aware Cooperative 4D Perception for Camera-Only Autonomous Driving
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11577
作者: Soham Pahari,Sudip Das,Arindam Das,Ujjwal Bhattacharya
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Autonomous vehicles often suffer from limited perception due to occlusions, blind spots, limited sensor range, and the complex nature of surrounding environments. Multi-agent collaborative perception (CP) addresses these challenges by allowing vehicles to share sensory information and reconstruct the scene cooperatively. However, camera-only perception remains fundamentally limited by the uncertainty of distance-dependent monocular depth estimation. We propose CoCam4D, a Bayesian framework for collaborative perception that explicitly models geometric uncertainty. It uses a VGGT-based feedforward network to generate 3D Gaussian scene representations with associated uncertainty estimates, enabling multiple vehicles or agents to efficiently combine their observations. By sharing compact Gaussian primitives, reliable observations from one agent can reduce the depth uncertainty of another without requiring LiDAR sensors. To support real-world deployment, we introduce Dynamic Object Primitives (DOPs), a compact 35-byte representation designed for efficient C-V2X communication. Extensive experiments show that our proposed method consistently outperforms recent vision-only methods, achieving improvements of 11.48% on OPV2V+ and 10.62% on DAIR-V2X-C, demonstrating the potential of geometrically grounded collaborative perception for LiDAR-free autonomous driving.
[CV-89] PAM-ToD: Plug-and-Play Appearance Modeling for Cross-Time-of-Day 3D Gaussian Splatting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11572
作者: Kota Shimomura,Sungho Moon,Tsubasa Hirakawa,Takayoshi Yamashita,Sunghoon Im,Hironobu Fujiyoshi
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 21 pages, 9 figures
Abstract:Adapting a pre-trained 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) road scene to a new time of day requires learning appearance changes from a few anchor images while preserving consistent, real-time rendering. We propose PAM-ToD, a lightweight plug-in that learns color corrections while keeping the pre-trained 3DGS parameters fixed. PAM-ToD scales each Gaussian’s existing color to model illumination changes and uses an additive term for additional brightness, such as when street lamps turn on at night. Under a simplified image formation model, unchanged surface albedo can be eliminated from the relation between source and target appearances, allowing us to learn these corrections without separately estimating albedo and illumination. The model corrects colors across the scene while allowing the corrections to vary by location and by Gaussian. To guide learning from a few anchor images, it discourages abrupt spatial changes in these corrections. We also introduce CARLA-ToD, a benchmark with matching geometry, camera poses, and moving-object trajectories across three times of day. A few target-time anchor images are used to train each plug-in, while separate views are used for evaluation. Across the static and dynamic settings, PAM-ToD achieves higher PSNR and lower LPIPS than the baselines, even when the anchor images come from a single synchronized capture across multiple cameras.
[CV-90] Hankel Subspace Self-Supervised Learning for Parallel MRI Reconstruction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11560
作者: Mingyu Hu,Siquan Zhu,Xijun Zhong,Qiegen Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Parallel magnetic resonance imaging reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem under undersampling. Multi-coil acquisition and Hankel lifting expose complementary repeated information: observations of the same anatomy across coils and repeated local k-space neighborhoods in overlapping windows. These dependencies guide recovery of missing k-space data. However, splitting lifted Hankel entries for self-supervision can place the original sample in both input and target, causing data leakage. We propose Hankel Subspace Self-Supervised Reconstruction (HSSRecon), a scan-specific reconstruction framework for parallel magnetic resonance imaging. HSSRecon partitions data by physical acquisition units before Hankel lifting and applies multiplicity normalization to repeated Hankel copies in overlapping windows. Rather than learning a mapping that directly predicts missing data, the network learns a compact complex-valued Hankel subspace operator. Reconstruction is performed over the original k-space variables using a conjugategradient solver with hard data consistency. This design separates structural learning in the Hankel domain from data consistency in the physical domain: the former exploits multi-coil and local Hankel correlations, while the latter solves over unacquired degrees of freedom. We provide theoretical analyses of physicalgroup splitting and multiplicity normalization, and establish positive definiteness, uniqueness, hard data consistency, and a finite-step conjugate-gradient error bound for the system. On fastMRI brain data with three contrasts and three sampling masks, HSSRecon achieves competitive peak signal-to-noise ratio, structural similarity, and normalized mean squared error across six aggregated conditions.
[CV-91] OX-NeRF: 3D X-ray Tomography Reconstruction from Sparse Views Using Implicit Neural Representation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11547
作者: Thomas Welsch,Min-Hsin Tu,David J. Chapman,Daniel E. Eakins
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:NeRF and Gaussian splatting methods have been successfully applied on X-ray scenes where the views are too sparse for 3D reconstruction via classical methods. Ultra-sparse scenes with 10 or fewer views such as those with high-rate or low-dose acquisition still, however, present a significant challenge. To address this problem we present a new framework, Optimised X-ray Neural Radiance Fields (OX-NeRF), that combines cross-scene feature learning with scene-specific optimisation to reconstruct sets of related scenes. OX-NeRF employs a convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify cross-scene features while maintaining scene-specific multi-resolution hash grids of spatial features. The paired representations are fused and passed to a multilayer perceptron (MLP); the CNN, hash grids and MLP are then jointly optimised end-to-end. Benchmarking on parallel-beam and cone-beam X-ray datasets shows OX-NeRF provides significantly higher reconstruction accuracy on ultra-sparse scenes compared to existing radiance field methods.
[CV-92] HAND: A Biologically-Inspired Activation Function that Improves Generalisation and Sample Efficiency in Image Classification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11534
作者: Michael W. Spratling,Heiko H. Schütt
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:DNNs exhibit robustness and generalisation issues not seen in humans. They are also far less data-efficient learners, requiring considerably more training samples to accurately classify novel exemplars. Inductive bias could help with these issues by providing in-built mechanisms to improve generalisation, and hence, reduce reliance on learning from data. We incorporate a biologically-inspired inductive bias into a new activation function, HAND (Homeostasis, Accelerating Nonlinearity, and Divisive-nomalisation), and show its effectiveness with CNNs trained on image classification. Using HAND a ConvNeXt-tiny required 25 training epochs to reach the same accuracy on ImageNet1k as the unmodified model achieved after 200 epochs. Consistent with the effects of an inductive bias, the performance gap reduced with training time and increased data augmentation. When the volume of training data was reduced and unevenly distributed between classes (Long-tailed ImageNet) the improvements in accuracy were even larger and did not reduce with increased training time. Generalisation performance with the common-corruptions data, and the ability to reject samples from unknown classes, were unaffected or improved by HAND. Results generalised across CNN architectures and training data-sets. HAND can, therefore, reduce the required training time and/or the required volume and variety of training data, helping to improve sample efficiency.
[CV-93] MSGAT: Multi-Head Spiking Graph Attention with Similarity-Space Fusion for Image-Text Retrieval
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11526
作者: Xintao Zong,Wenxuan Liu,Jianhao Ding,Zhaofei Yu,Tiejun Huang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient computing paradigm through sparse event-driven computation, showing great potential for efficient multimodal learning. However, applying SNNs to high-level multimodal tasks, such as image-text retrieval (ITR), remains challenging, since sparse spike representations make it difficult to capture semantic structures required for cross-modal alignment. Existing spiking ITR methods rely on local alignment and additional soft-label supervision during training, while lacking awareness of structural and multi-granularity relationships. To address these issues, we propose a Multi-head Spiking Graph Attention Network (\textbfMSGAT) for structural modeling and equip it with dynamic attention heads to capture complementary relational patterns and enable spike-driven graph reasoning and aggregation. However, within a two-branch multi-granularity fusion framework, the fine-grained spike representations generated by MSGAT are sparse and discrete, whereas the global representations are continuous, making conventional feature-level fusion susceptible to interference across heterogeneous representations. Therefore, we introduce \textbfSim-Fuse, a similarity-space fusion alignment strategy integrating coarse- and fine-grained matching relations while avoiding direct fusion of heterogeneous representations. Experiments on Flickr30K and MSCOCO show our method outperforms ANN methods under matched settings and existing SNN retrieval baselines. Moreover, with only two time steps, our SNN achieves comparable or superior performance to its ANN counterpart while reducing theoretical module-level energy by 55%. The code is provided in the Supplementary Materials.
[CV-94] WARP-VLA: Wrist-Camera Adaptation for View-Robust Policy Execution in Vision-Language-Action Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11508
作者: Junmyeong Lee,Dongmin Shin,Min-Gyu Park,Wooseok Jeon,Inho Chang,Hae-Gon Jeon
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 9 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:Despite recent advances in Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) for robotic manipulation, their performance remains sensitive to changes in camera configuration. The problem becomes more evident in cross-setup deployment, as reproducing the exact camera pose used for training is nearly impossible. Unlike fixed external views, wrist views are more challenging because the camera moves with the robot, causing even small mounting variations to alter fine-grained geometric cues. To address this, we propose WARP-VLA, a camera-view robust VLA for diverse wrist camera configurations. WARP-VLA adopts a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture where individual experts learn view-specific feature transformations, and a router combines them based on implicit view information. This allows the policy to be deployed without requiring camera extrinsic parameters as additional input. Through experiments on the LIBERO benchmark, WARP-VLA improves the average success rate of pi-0.5 from 39.2% to 78.3% under wrist-view perturbations. The real-robot experiments further show that the feature-level adaptation learned in simulation successfully transfers to diverse deployment settings. To facilitate reproducibility and future research, we release our wrist viewpoint robustness benchmark and a plug-and-play implementation.
[CV-95] Parametric Trajectory Distillation for Few-Step Video Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11498
作者: Lan Feng,Peter Karkus,Maximilian Igl,Julius Berner,Yuxiao Chen,Shuhan Tan,Alexandre Alahi,Boris Ivanovic,Marco Pavone
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Video diffusion and flow models require many sequential evaluations, making generation computationally expensive. Few-step distillation reduces this cost but poses a capacity allocation problem: a student must match the teacher’s iterative generation with far less sequential computation. Existing trajectory methods ask the student to reproduce teacher transitions that are highly curved at high noise, which can exceed its capacity and degrade fine detail. We introduce Parametric Trajectory Distillation (PTD), which lets the student parameterize teacher trajectory segments as polynomials and learn from teacher guidance along its own predicted path. PTD is designed to let the learned curvature adapt to the backbone’s predictive capacity, preserving motion and diversity. The curvature head is used only in training; inference keeps the original backbone architecture. On Wan2.1-14B, four-step PTD sets a new state of the art for trajectory distillation, significantly improving dynamic quality and naturalness over PDD, the best-performing trajectory-only method on this model, under the same training setting. On the 33B audio-video MiniMax-H3, LoRA-trained PTD significantly improves diversity and naturalness over the state-of-the-art LightX2V Turbo. Blinded human votes give PTD 55.1% and 63.4% preference shares against PDD and LightX2V Turbo. Project page: this https URL.
[CV-96] Stop My Dancing! Understanding Detecting and Attributing Motion-Aware Deepfake Videos
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11496
作者: Fazhong Liu,Yan Meng,Tian Dong,Guoxing Chen,Haojin Zhu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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Abstract:Pose-guided diffusion models can now synthesize entire human figures in motion, spawning a new class of deepfakes: Motion Aware Deepfake (MAD) that have already reached hundreds of millions of viewers. To better understand this emerging threat, we construct the first MAD-specific benchmark and measurement framework, containing over 1.5 million frames that mix 1,363 real and 30,122 synthetic videos from six controllable generators, with realistic perturbations and open-world evaluation splits. Then, we dissect MAD and discover that, despite their global coherence, these videos betray faint yet reliable cues: because the model relies on limited input frames for motion synthesis, it must predict and simulate coherent movement at motion boundaries, thereby producing high-frequency artifacts along with model-specific spectral fingerprints. Based on the observations obtained from analysis on dataset, we propose MoDA, the first defense framework tailored to detect and attribute MAD videos. MoDA couples spatial semantics with steganalysis-rich frequency features via cross-domain alignment and multi-scale aggregation, achieving 94.8% in-distribution and 89.1% cross-dataset detection accuracy gains of 10% to 25% over prior work and 91.5% model attribution accuracy. MoDA achieves 81.94% accuracy on 200 clips produced by two unseen commercial MAD platforms, indicating promising zero-shot transfer, and 78.13% detection accuracy on 1,200 unseen MAD video clips (55k frames in total) collected from the open Internet. Under white-box, gray-box, and black-box adaptive attacks, MoDA maintains relatively stable detection and attribution performance while the accuracies of the baselines drop rapidly.
[CV-97] Conditional Residual Prediction: Improving Autoregressive Video Diffusion without a Bidirectional Teacher
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11479
作者: Bowen Zheng,Zhiguang Liu,Jiarong Ou,Rui Chen,Tianyang Hu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 26 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Abstract:Causal video diffusion models generate video autoregressively, which suits streaming, interactive, and long-video generation. Under standard training, however, they often yield lower generation quality than bidirectional models of the same size. Many existing approaches address this gap by initializing from or distilling a pretrained bidirectional teacher. We instead train a causal model from an image-model initialization, with no bidirectional video model at any stage. Because this path requires neither a large bidirectional teacher nor a complex distillation pipeline, it is simpler and more scalable. On this path, we find that a causal model trained on ground-truth history becomes strongly dependent on it, so that at inference errors in its own generated history propagate forward. We hypothesize that much of this dependence is unnecessary, because the current input already determines much of what the history provides. We propose Conditional Residual Prediction (CRP), a simple recipe for reducing a model’s reliance on a condition: the model first predicts the target without the condition, and the condition may only add a residual on top of this prediction. Applied to history, CRP makes the model predict each chunk from the present as far as it can and use the past only for what the present cannot supply. In controlled experiments, CRP nearly closes the 6.14-point gap to a bidirectional model trained under the same setup. Scaling this recipe, we train Optica, a 2B-parameter causal video model that autoregressively generates 5-second 480p videos and reaches 82.78 on VBench with only about 15M training videos.
[CV-98] ProtoSemImage: Image-Valued Prototypes with Deformable Row Alignment for Interpretable Document Classification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11460
作者: Mohammad Zare,Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Prototypes in classification models are almost always vectors, and a vector has no readable form. This paper asks what happens when a prototype is an image. Documents give the question a natural form, because a document can be rendered as a multi-channel image in which every token becomes a pixel, so a class representative can take the same shape and the same channel semantics as the inputs it stands for. ProtoSemImage represents each class by one or more visual archetypes: prototype images in a four-channel HSV space whose channels carry named linguistic factors. A Skip-Gram objective learns that color space end to end through a four-dimensional bottleneck, discourse boundary rows become differentiable typed difference rows, and classification reduces to 2D visual template matching: a deformable row alignment between a document image and the archetype bank, in the spirit of dynamic time warping. Because the match is a spatial pattern comparison rather than a linear readout, the model reports where an input departs from its archetype and along which channel, and a generative head decodes each archetype back into text. The image representation works: it beats an otherwise identical model with vector prototypes in all three paired seeds, by between 4.3 and 11.8 points on a ten-class task. The distance-based matching does not. A diagnostic that keeps the representation fixed and swaps only the classifier recovers the sequence baselines, which locates a 20.6-point shortfall in the matching rather than in the color compression, and a benchmark built so that a pair of documents shares a bag of words and differs only in arrangement confirms the layout-preservation it was designed for. We report both directions, because for a representation whose whole purpose is inspect ability, the failure modes are as informative as the gains.
[CV-99] Learning to Retrieve: Internalizing Memory Retrieval for Video World Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11444
作者: JiaKui Hu,Tailai Chen,Yuqi Pan,Xuerui Qiu,Jialun Liu,Xiao Cao,Zhenxin Zhu,Guang Chen,Hangjun Ye,Bing Wang,Yanye Lu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Video world models aim to generate explorable, 3D-consistent scene videos conditioned on camera trajectories. Existing approaches often rely on external memory systems that explicitly retrieve previously observed content to mitigate scene drift during long-horizon generation. However, these auxiliary memory pathways operate outside the model’s internal generative dynamics, preventing the model from intrinsically learning when and what historical information should be retrieved. We propose to internalize memory retrieval into the generation process, allowing retrieval to emerge as an intrinsic behavior of the video world model rather than relying on an external memory system. Based on this principle, we introduce \textbfLearning-to-Retrieve (L2R), which repurposes the model’s persistent internal state as a memory for historical context. A camera-conditioned retrieval gate selectively accesses relevant historical information from this state, determining \textitwhat to retrieve, while a retrieval trigger determines \textitwhen to retrieve. We further supervise the trigger with a 3D re-visibility signal, activating retrieval when previously observed content re-enters the current view while otherwise preserving the existing context. Together, these components enable the model to intrinsically acquire memory retrieval behavior and incorporate relevant historical observations into generation without a separate retrieval pathway. Across multiple base models and camera-revisit benchmarks, L2R improves long-term scene consistency while eliminating the need for an external memory bank or 3D conditions. this https URL
[CV-100] DLC: A Metric-Guided Dynamic Loss Controller for Multi-Objective Training ACCV2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11433
作者: Jaewan Ko,Janghoon Choi
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted to ACCV 2026
Abstract:In this paper, we introduce a metric-guided dynamic loss controller (DLC) for multi-objective image restoration. Conventional image restoration pipelines usually train with a fixed weighted combination of multiple losses, without changing the relative importance of fidelity, perceptual similarity, and no-reference quality during optimization. DLC is an architecture- and loss-term-agnostic training-time controller: it does not modify the restoration architecture or introduce new differentiable loss terms, but dynamically reweights the existing training losses. During training, DLC periodically evaluates the current model on a small fixed feedback subset and uses the resulting quality metrics to update the loss-weight vector through an LLM-based controller. Because DLC operates on existing loss terms rather than task-specific architectures, the same controller formulation can be instantiated across diverse image restoration training pipelines. We evaluate DLC on three restoration domains: low-light image enhancement, deraining, and real-world super-resolution, using both reference-based and no-reference quality metrics. Across these settings, DLC considers metric-dependent trade-offs during optimization and guides training toward balanced operating points across fidelity and perceptual quality. The results show that DLC can move models toward more favorable operating points across different restoration domains, supporting its role as a practical plug-in controller for multi-objective image restoration.
[CV-101] EchoDiST: Self-distillation-based joint learning for diffusion-conditioned echocardiographic myocardial motion estimation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11431
作者: Feiyue Qi,Xingyue Wei,Jianwen Luo
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 19 pages, 14 figures
Abstract:Motion estimation in echocardiography is essential for quantitative assessment of cardiac function and myocardial mechanics, but remains challenging due to image artifacts, limited image information, speckle decorrelation, and the scarcity of ground-truth displacement fields. Anatomy-guided approaches can provide structural information, yet often rely on expert-labeled myocardial segmentations. We propose EchoDiST, a framework for unsupervised echocardiographic myocardial motion estimation that integrates self-distillation-based joint learning with a diffusion-conditioned motion estimation network. Here, unsupervised motion estimation refers to learning without ground-truth displacement fields. The self-distillation strategy jointly optimizes anatomical segmentation and myocardial motion estimation under limited anatomical annotations. Diffusion-based conditioning is used during training with stochastic perturbations, while inference requires only a single deterministic forward pass without iterative reverse-diffusion sampling. EchoDiST was evaluated on three echocardiographic datasets, including two external test datasets under cross-view and cross-dataset settings. Compared with seven representative learning-based methods, EchoDiST consistently improved anatomical alignment, myocardial strain assessment, and motion-derived functional and cardiac-phase assessment. These gains were statistically significant across the evaluated tasks and datasets. Overall, EchoDiST provides an effective approach for reliable myocardial motion estimation under limited anatomical supervision and supports downstream quantitative assessment of cardiac function.
[CV-102] Missing Modality-Aware Calibration for Trustworthy Brain Tumor Segmentation MICCAI2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11419
作者: Sol Lee,Hyunji Kim,Sungrae Hong,Donghee Han,Mun Yi
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Multimodal brain tumor segmentation typically leverages multiple MRI modalities, yet incomplete modality acquisition is common in clinical practice due to protocol heterogeneity and scan failures. Although recent methods maintain segmentation accuracy under missing modality conditions, they frequently overlook prediction reliability, leading to miscalibrated confidence estimates that hinder clinical adoption. Existing calibration techniques are largely modality-agnostic or assume that prediction difficulty decreases monotonically as additional modalities become available. However, in brain tumor segmentation, prediction difficulty depends primarily on which modalities are absent rather than how many, leading to combination-specific and spatially heterogeneous calibration errors. To address this, we propose Missing Modality-Aware Local Temperature Scaling (MMA-LTS), a post-hoc voxel-wise confidence calibration method. It estimates a spatially adaptive temperature field conditioned on a modality-availability learnable token and a voxel-wise difficulty score. Experiments on BraTS 2020 and FeTS 2024 show that MMA-LTS improves calibration while preserving the segmentation accuracy of state-of-the-art models across diverse missing-modality scenarios, thereby enhancing trustworthiness toward clinical deployment.
[CV-103] Fresco: Frequency-Guided and Canonical-Consistent Optimization for Fine-Grained Head Avatar Modeling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11412
作者: Shikun Zhang,Yong Li,Yiqun Wang,Qiuhong Ke,Cunjian Chen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 14 pages, 10 figures
Abstract:We propose Fresco++, a unified optimization framework for fine-grained and view-consistent head avatar reconstruction. Head avatar optimization is typically driven by per-view image supervision, which can lead to premature fitting of unstable high-frequency details and inconsistent local appearance across viewpoints. Fresco++ addresses these challenges by regulating both the progression of visual detail and the formation of cross-view supervision during optimization. For frequency-aware optimization, a progressive curriculum first stabilizes low-frequency structures and then introduces high-frequency constraints to recover fine facial and hair details without amplifying spurious responses at early stages. For cross-view optimization, we introduce Canonical Group Consensus, which associates local observations through shared canonical surface regions and establishes correspondence across different viewpoints. Geometric and visibility-aware screening removes unreliable observations, while the remaining multi-view evidence is aggregated in feature space to form a consensus target for supervising the current rendering. This design enforces local consistency without relying on a specific image-space parameterization and avoids additional rendering of the auxiliary view. Together, the frequency curriculum and canonical consensus provide stable optimization from coarse structures to fine details while maintaining coherent appearance across viewpoints. Extensive experiments on NeRSemble demonstrate improved reconstruction quality and cross-view consistency, while evaluations across diverse avatar representations further confirm the generality and transferability of Fresco++.
[CV-104] GroundSight at GroundLM 2026 Shared Tasks: GoldenViewVQA
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11402
作者: Kun Wang,Yupeng Hu,Ruping Cao,Hao Liu,Zhiran Li,Qianlong Xiang,Harry Cheng
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:GoldenViewVQA requires models to jointly answer driving-scene questions and identify the camera view containing the supporting visual evidence, making precise evidence localization as important as answer correctness. We present \textbfCoVeR-VQA, a training-free multi-stage verification and correction framework for grounded multi-view VQA. Starting from GPT-5.6 zero-shot predictions, CoVeR-VQA progressively applies view-specific verification with Gemini-3.6-Flash, prior-guided joint verification with Claude-Opus-5, and cross-split group-level verification that exploits semantically filtered question groups from shared multi-view scenes and validation-derived prior knowledge. On the official GoldenViewVQA test set, the four-stage CoVeR-VQA pipeline achieves 84.75% Joint Accuracy, improving the GPT-5.6 zero-shot baseline by 13.56 percentage points, while reaching 94.92% Answer Accuracy and 86.44% View Accuracy. The final submitted run achieves 88.14% Joint Accuracy after two additional evaluator-informed post-hoc corrections. Our analysis shows that supporting-view localization remains the primary source of residual errors, highlighting the importance of explicit evidence verification for reliable multi-view multimodal reasoning.
[CV-105] WAM-Cache: Staleness-Bounded KV Reuse for Efficient World Action Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11401
作者: Kai Ding,Yang He,Ruijie Quan,Yi Yang
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 19 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:World Action Models (WAMs) enable generalist robot manipulation by conditioning an action expert on representations from a pretrained video Diffusion Transformer (DiT). In closed-loop control, the video DiT runs at every chunk to encode the current observation into layerwise key-value (KV) pairs that the action expert queries. This prefill dominates the per-chunk computational cost, yet existing training-free accelerations leave it fully dense. We present WAM-Cache, a training-free framework that retains layerwise key-value representations across chunks and recomputes only a sparse refresh set of tokens. Crucially, we find that the intuitive heuristic of refreshing visually drifted tokens plateaus far below the dense baseline, even with an oracle predicting ground-truth KV drift. Downstream action accuracy is instead governed by where the action expert attends, not by what moved. WAM-Cache therefore selects the refresh set by uniting the action expert’s cross-attention with visual latent surprise, complemented by a strict age bound that suppresses compounding error. On Fast-WAM, WAM-Cache cuts video DiT prefill FLOPs by 32-42% across RoboTwin 2.0, LIBERO, and real-world experiments, while staying within 0.7-1.8 percentage points of the dense policy in simulation and 2.5 points on a real robot.
[CV-106] CoPoE: Multimodal Fusion via Decomposable Disease-Coordinate Product-of-Experts for Missing-Modality Alzheimers Diagnosis
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11394
作者: Chihun An,Ikbeom Jang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted at IEEE BIBM 2026
Abstract:Multimodal Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis benefits from integrating heterogeneous clinical, imaging, genomic, and biomarker evidence, but clinical cohorts frequently suffer from irregular modality missingness. Existing fusion methods often synthesize absent inputs, risking the introduction of artificial surrogates, or pool available signals into uninterpretable latent spaces. We present CoPoE (Disease-Coordinate Product-of-Experts), a disease-coordinate framework that maps multimodal evidence into a structured latent space partitioned into four distinct biological and clinical axes: genetic Risk, molecular Pathology, Neurodegeneration, and clinical Stage (R/P/N/S). Each observed modality parameterizes a diagonal Gaussian expert over the full RPNS vector, and a masked Product-of-Experts architecture fuses only the available modalities. Consequently, absent modalities add no factor to the fusion path, allowing the network to preserve a robust, decomposable posterior for any non-empty modality subset without synthetic imputation in the RPNS path. Through extensive missing-modality experiments on the ADNI dataset, CoPoE achieves the best all-modality performance and the highest mean AUROC across all 15 observed-subset evaluations among standardized missing-modality fusion baselines under a shared non-PET ADNI embedding benchmark, while substantially improving raw-probability ECE, Brier score, and NLL. Furthermore, PET-supervised probing shows evidence enrichment within the pathology § block under full modalities, with tau-related signal retained even when direct fluid biospecimen inputs are withheld. Our code is available at this https URL.
[CV-107] EvoKnow: Continual Knowledge Evolution for AI-Generated Image Detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11381
作者: Zhiheng Peng,Wenwei Jin,Yangshi Ge,Siyu Xia,Jiawei Li,Xu Tang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:AI-generated image detectors are commonly trained on fixed generator domains and become difficult to maintain as new generative models emerge. Continual adaptation is challenging because replaying historical generated images is costly, whereas updating shared parameters with limited current-domain data can overwrite prior forensic knowledge. We propose EvoKnow, a replay-free framework that formulates continual AI-generated image detection as forensic knowledge evolution. EvoKnow preserves a shared forensic basis learned from base domains, incrementally adds isolated residual experts for complementary generator-relevant evidence, and retrieves expertise through an Analytical Incremental Router (AIR) updated in closed form from current-stage generated images and accumulated sufficient statistics. Experiments demonstrate effective cross-generator generalization, few-shot expansion, and long-horizon continual adaptation. With ten generated images per arriving generator, EvoKnow achieves 96.70% average accuracy on non-base GenImage generators and 94.48% accuracy on Chameleon without target-benchmark adaptation. Under a strict replay-free continual learning protocol, EvoKnow achieves state-of-the-art continual learning performance, attaining 96.32% mean stage-wise accuracy and 4.32% average forgetting.
[CV-108] FastJEV: Understanding Redundancy for Compact JEV Inference
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11379
作者: Jie Ma,Jie Gao,Yihang Liu,Zhike Qiu,Junle Li,Chongyi Zhuang,Jiayi Ji,Xiaoshuai Sun
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:JEV models make multimodal decisions by directly scoring candidates. Although the common context is encoded once, candidate evaluation can still repeat matching token histories, duplicate inference states, and execute the full backbone. In this paper, we study these sources of redundancy and present FastJEV for compact candidate evaluation. We jointly organize history reuse and state storage, since sharing computation requires preserving states for later branches. We first introduce shared context anchoring to reuse recurrent initial states and omit unused final recurrent caches. We extend this reuse through candidate prefix sharing, retaining the intermediate states needed by subsequent branches. To further reduce the depth of these paths, we apply decision guided pruning based on relative score changes measured on a small unlabeled set. Our method retains full context encoding and all candidates without additional training. We evaluate FastJEV across three OmniJev model sizes on five public benchmarks and reconstructed LIBERO-10 offline questions. At the selected pruning budgets, the complete method reduces candidate depth by 43.75% to 45.83%, while retaining 93.66% to 97.52% of the original task scores on average across the six evaluation sets. Through controlled experiments, we show how candidate overlap and branching structure affect the execution cost of history reuse. In our implementation, candidate prefix sharing can reduce repeated computation while increasing latency. These findings motivate designing sharing granularity and execution schedules together for efficient JEV inference.
[CV-109] CRISP: Fixing Flying Pixels in Latent LiDAR Generation via Diffusion Decoding NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11376
作者: Andrea Ceron,Michael Schmidt,Alvaro Marcos-Ramiro,Sebastian Schmidt,Benjamin Busam
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 (poster). 41 pages, 10 figures, 18 tables. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Latent LiDAR pipelines suffer from flying pixels: convolutional VAEs blur sharp radial depth discontinuities, yielding edge depths that back-project to points floating between surfaces. We identify this as a major, directly correctable decoder bottleneck and introduce CRISP: a pixel-space diffusion decoder with a backbone-agnostic latent adapter, DiT-based denoiser, and support mask predictor. CRISP replaces video-VAE and LiDAR-native decoders alike while keeping the encoder and latent generator fixed. Across KITTI-360, SemanticKITTI, and nuScenes, replacing only the decoder reduces FSVD/FPVD by 50.5% on average across frozen backbones; for generic video VAEs, the reductions reach 71%/74%. On the LiDAR-native LiDM backbone, FRID drops by 71%, with the largest gains at depth discontinuities. In a pretrained LiDM world model, the same zero-shot replacement improves FSVD by 15.5%, narrowing the sim-to-real gap.
[CV-110] Rethinking Contrastive Loss in CLIP Post-training: A Complementary Framework with Frozen Text Encoder
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11374
作者: Zidan Wang,Yaqian Li,Xiaokai Zhang,Kaiwen Long,Kun He,Hanpeng Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:CLIP serves as a foundational vision-language model and the de facto vision encoder for downstream VLMs such as LLaVA. Post-training offers a lightweight route to refine CLIP, but recent work argues that the standard contrastive loss is unsuitable for post-training due to catastrophic forgetting under small batches, motivating designs that abandon the contrastive objective in favor of distillation. We revisit this premise and find that, for the InfoNCE objective, the reported forgetting is driven primarily not by insufficient negatives but by an inappropriate magnitude of the contrastive temperature \tau : with \tau set sufficiently small, contrastive post-training improves rather than degrades the pretrained CLIP, which we explain through the temperature dependence of the InfoNCE gradient. Building on this finding, we propose \textbfComCLIP, a lightweight single-epoch post-training recipe that freezes CLIP’s text encoder—so the refined vision encoder is a drop-in replacement with unchanged architecture and inference cost—and trains the vision encoder with a properly-tempered contrastive loss, an MSE anchoring loss against the original CLIP, and a relational distillation loss from DINOv2. Over multiple seeds, ComCLIP matches the self-distillation baseline CLIP-Refine on zero-shot classification while significantly improving the transferability of visual features, measured by linear probing ( 48.99 vs.\ 42.28 on ViT-B/16), and on ViT-L/14 it also improves MMVP over CLIP-Refine ( 24.20 vs.\ 19.01 ); CLIP-Refine remains stronger on image-text retrieval. Used as a drop-in vision encoder for LLaVA-1.5-7B without re-aligning the projector or LLM, ComCLIP yields no net change across 8 VLM benchmarks, i.e., the refinement does not break downstream compatibility. Code and models are available at this https URL.
[CV-111] FlyMark: Training-Free Invisible Watermarking of 3D Gaussian Splatting via a Fruit Fly Connectome
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11364
作者: Ziyuan Luo,Haoliang Li,Renjie Wan
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:A trained 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scene ships as a portable parameter array that can be copied, pruned, requantized, or repackaged outside its training pipeline, so ownership evidence is most useful when it lives in the released parameters and remains checkable long after the embedding tooling is gone. Existing 3DGS watermarks typically tie embedding or extraction to scene optimization, a learned decoder, or rendered views, so the evidence survives only as long as a second trained artifact does. FlyMark instead writes a keyed message into the parameters a 3DGS file already stores. Its carrier directions are derived from the photoreceptors of a published connectome, a citable versioned artifact that fixes the geometry exhaustively and leaves nothing to tune per scene. A virtual observer reads cone-wise apparent luminance along a scene-normalized orbit from stored centers, colors, and opacities; a keyed dithered quantization-index-modulation code replicates each message bit across these observations; and one sparse bounded least-squares solve realizes the targets through achromatic shifts of existing degree-zero colors under a hard per-channel linear-RGB bound. All geometry and higher-order appearance parameters are preserved bit-identically, and extraction needs only cone queries, rounding, and majority voting. Under a model-domain threat model on synthetic and real scenes, FlyMark attains high clean bit accuracy and visual fidelity while cleanly separating matched from wrong keys.
[CV-112] Bernoulli Flow Models: Self-Consistent Generative Modeling for Binary Data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11362
作者: Hao Mo,Liying Yang,Shumin Yao,Xinxing Yu,Ajian Liu,Xudong Mao,Yanyan Liang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Binary diffusion models typically require a large number of function evaluations (NFEs) to generate high-quality samples, making practical inference computationally expensive. Reducing NFEs while preserving sample quality without distillation or additional training remains a significant challenge. Existing binary diffusion models define a discrete one-step forward path and then derive the reverse posterior. In low-NFE settings requiring cross-step sampling, they approximate the true multi-step likelihood with a single-step likelihood transition, which severely degrades sample quality. To address this fundamental limitation and decouple the generative dynamics from fixed discrete time steps, we propose Bernoulli Flow Models (BFM). Rather than relying on sequential one-step Markov diffusion chains, BFM defines a unified continuous global Bernoulli probability flow path between data distributions and pure noise, from which we derive analytical closed-form posterior transitions over arbitrary time intervals. Consequently, reducing the inference NFE is no longer an approximation based on skipping discrete steps; it only requires re-evaluating the analytical posterior over a new time grid. This eliminates the structural training-inference mismatch inherent to discrete chains and yields self-consistent low-NFE sampling. Experiments show that BFM is highly robust to aggressive NFE reduction. On LSUN Churches 256x256, a BFM trained with 256 steps achieves an FID of 9.22 using only 16 sampling steps, whereas the state-of-the-art discrete baseline degrades to 204.10. BFM also remains competitive with continuous and discrete generative baselines under standard full-step inference. These results establish BFM as a theoretically rigorous, self-consistent, and practically effective framework for fast binary data generation.
[CV-113] SepGen: Multi-Stem Audio-Video Separation and Generation in a Single Model
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11361
作者: Aviad Dahan,Rajaei Khatib,Yonatan Bitton,Idan Szpektor,Lior Wolf,Raja Giryes
类目: ound (cs.SD); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 24 pages, 8 figures, 18 tables. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:A 4D audio-visual scene comprises a video, the dynamic geometry it depicts, and the sound sources that populate it, each with its own position and trajectory. Rendering such a scene from a novel viewpoint requires that every source be available as an individual waveform, so that it can be localized in the scene and propagated to the observer before the signals are mixed. Joint audio-video generators can synthesize the video and its soundtrack, but the soundtrack is emitted as a single audio-mix in which the sources are not individually accessible. We present SepGen, which extends a pretrained audio-video generator to emit the video, the mixed soundtrack, and one waveform per captioned source in one joint sampling run. SepGen supports two complementary modes: generation and separation. In generation mode, each source caption specifies what its stem contains. A two-speaker dialogue, for example, comes out as one stem per speaker in the original turn order. In separation mode, the input audio-mix remains clean while the captions specify what to extract, so the model can decompose a recording from a free-text description. We evaluate generation on scenes synthesized from text, and separation on scenes rendered by other generators and on real recordings of speech, music, and sound effects. Given an audio-mix and captions that carry the spoken lines, SepGen outperforms language-conditioned separators, most clearly on speech, and it keeps the lead when the lines are removed from the captions. Code, checkpoints, and datasets are available at this https URL
[CV-114] Adaptive Adversarial Augmentation for Controllable Face Synthesis
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11356
作者: Saransh Suri,Shivang Agarwal,Mayank Vatsa,Richa Singh
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Synthetic data provides a scalable alternative to real-world datasets for training face recognition models, particularly under challenging conditions such as low resolution, occlusion, and masks. Yet, most approaches lack diversity and fail to generalize effectively. We propose Ensemble Feedback Controllable Synthesis (EFCS), a guided framework that generates diverse and challenging samples while preserving visual realism. EFCS expands distributional variability, often reflected in higher FID and KID scores compared to single-feedback and random synthesis, while maintaining high precision. Recognition models trained on EFCS data consistently outperform baselines across multiple benchmarks, showing improved generalization to real-world scenarios. Furthermore, we introduce an analytically motivated formulation linking perturbation-induced difficulty, sample utility, and performance degradation, offering principled insights into balancing synthetic data complexity for optimal training. Together, these contributions establish EFCS as an effective and analytically grounded approach for bridging the gap between synthetic and real datasets.
[CV-115] EgoPhys: Estimating Peak Contact Force and Mechanical Work from Egocentric Manipulation Video
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11347
作者: Zhuo Dong,Jianhua Yang,Haohao Li,Yumeng Zhao,Keji He,Yan Huang,Liang Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Physically grounded manipulation of articulated objects requires understanding both the maximum forces encountered during contact and the work performed as their parts move. Peak contact force and mechanical work quantify these complementary aspects, but estimating them from egocentric video is challenging because physical interaction cues are local and indirect. Moreover, peak force is associated with brief contact events, whereas mechanical work depends on force-motion coupling throughout the contact duration. To address these challenges, we propose EgoPhys, an RGB-only framework comprising Contact-Aware Spatial Aggregation (CASA) and Target-Specific Multi-Expert Temporal Routing (TMTR). CASA integrates appearance and geometry features to emphasize interaction-relevant cues, while TMTR models semantic, event, and motion cues with specialized temporal experts and routes them separately for force and work prediction. On the test split from Hoi! dataset, EgoPhys substantially improves predictions of peak force and mechanical work, achieving MAEs of (5.205 \pm 0.584) N and 0.894 \pm 0.081 J , respectively.
[CV-116] Point-Focused Attention Meets Context-Scan State Space: Robust Biological Visual Perception for Point Cloud Representation ICLR’26
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11342
作者: Kanglin Qu,Pan Gao,Qun Dai,Yuanhao Sun
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted by ICLR’26
Abstract:Synergistically capturing intricate local structures and global contextual dependencies has become a critical challenge in point cloud representation learning. To address this, we introduce PointLearner, a point cloud representation learning network that closely aligns with biological vision which employs an active, foveation-inspired processing strategy, thus enabling local geometric modeling and long-range dependency interactions simultaneously. Specifically, we first design a point-focused attention, which simulates foveal vision at the visual focus through a competitive normalized attention mechanism between local neighbors and spatially downsampled features. The spatially downsampled features are extracted by a pooling method based on learnable inducing points, which can flexibly adapt to the non-uniform distribution of point clouds as the number of inducing points is controlled and they interact directly with point clouds. Second, we propose a context-scan state space that mimics eye’s saccade inference, which infers the overall semantic structure and spatial content in the scene through a scan path guided by the Hilbert curve for the bidirectional S6. With this focus-then-context biomimetic design, PointLearner demonstrates remarkable robustness and achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple point cloud tasks.
[CV-117] PathLang: A Language-Centered Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Computational Pathology
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11329
作者: Fanqi Cheng,Kuo Gong,Shangke Liu,Beidi Zhao,Junchao Zhu,Zheyu Zhu,Leiyue Zhao,Fengbei Liu,John Cannon,Gang Wang,Zu-hua Gao,Kenji Ikemura,Yihe Yang,Yaohong Wang,Yuankai Huo,Xiaoxiao Li,Mert R. Sabuncu,Ruining Deng
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Pathology vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong visual perception ability, but their robustness in the language domain remains poorly characterized. Existing pathology VLM benchmarks largely rely on canonical closed-set prompts or perturb only generic templates, treating language as a fixed evaluation component rather than a variable axis of model behavior. In clinical practice, however, diagnostic language varies across reports, institutions, and candidate diagnoses. We introduce PathLang, a language-centered and clinically grounded zero-shot benchmark. PathLang holds the underlying slides, ground-truth labels, and image-text evaluation direction fixed while systematically varying only the diagnostic language, so that performance differences reflect how a diagnosis is phrased rather than what is imaged. The language variation follows how pathologists actually rephrase diagnoses (terminology, specificity, and reporting style), and all prompts and candidate pools are validated by six board-certified pathologists. PathLang covers four task families: (1) zero-shot classification with image-text alignment analysis, (2) cross-modal retrieval, (3) paraphrase robustness, including semantic-equivalence paraphrases, length and reporting-style variation, and prompt ensembling, and (4) open-vocabulary diagnosis retrieval over four candidate pools with distinct forms of semantic competition. Across nine VLMs and five public datasets spanning four organs, we find that performance is highly sensitive to clinically equivalent paraphrases, varies substantially across forms of semantic competition, and that image-text alignment quality does not necessarily translate into inter-class separability. We release the prompt corpus, candidate pools, pre-computed text embeddings, and evaluation code at this https URL.
[CV-118] Deflating the Hessian: Rank-4 W4A4 Quantization for Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11315
作者: Shiwen Wang,Pengxiang Zhao,Xiaoming Yuan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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Abstract:In diffusion transformers, low-rank branches can mitigate 4-bit weight–activation (W4A4) post-training quantization (PTQ) loss by decomposing each weight into a low-bit residual and a high-precision low-rank component. Existing low-rank PTQ approaches, however, either optimize low-rank compensation and residual quantization separately, often requiring higher ranks, or rely on second-order weight updates without explicitly modeling activation quantization error, which becomes particularly pronounced under 4-bit quantization. To address these limitations, we present \method, a unified framework modeling low-rank-assisted W4A4 PTQ as a coupled calibration problem and deriving optimization-based solvers from the joint objective. Eliminating the output-side low-rank factor yields a \emphdeflated Hessian that discounts residual errors already captured by the low-rank component, while an activation-noise surrogate is incorporated to suppress activation quantization error. Across five diffusion backbones, rank-4 \method consistently outperforms rank-4 SVDQuant in PSNR and LPIPS. It further surpasses rank-32 SVDQuant on SANA-1.6B, FLUX.1-schnell, and FLUX.1-dev with an 8\times smaller rank and up to 6.25\times faster quantization. Furthermore, on the Qwen3-8B LLM, rank-4 \method improves MMLU accuracy from 61.50% to 68.17% over rank-32 SVDQuant. Overall, \method achieves better W4A4 performance with substantially lower rank and quantization cost.
[CV-119] FloorSAV: Elucidating Spatial Audio-Visual Context with 2D Floormap for AV-LLM s
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11310
作者: Kyeong-Rae Kim,Sungnyun Kim,Tae-Hyun Oh
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:While 3D spatial reasoning in dynamic egocentric environments is crucial for embodied intelligence, audio-visual large language models (AV-LLMs) lack explicit mechanisms to process and internalize global geometry directly from raw sensory streams. Existing approaches either require costly fine-tuning or underutilize the model’s cross-modal reasoning capacities. In this paper, we propose FloorSAV, a novel framework that explicitly grounds spatial audio-visual context by rendering a dynamic 2D floormap. By integrating 3D point clouds, camera trajectories, spatial audio cues, and semantically grounded object landmarks, we inject this floormap into the AV-LLM as a synchronized stream with an egocentric video. AV-LLMs utilize their multi-modal capabilities to jointly reason over visual, auditory, and geometric cues in a single inference with floormap interpretation guidance. We further introduce SAVED-Bench (Spatial Audio-Visual Egocentric Benchmark with Dynamic Agents), constructing essential tasks of spatial capability in real-world scenarios: dynamic relativity, regional, and path reasoning QAs. FloorSAV improves AV-LLMs’ spatial reasoning on various tasks from both SAVED-Bench and SAVVY-Bench. Studies with ground-truth floormaps demonstrate the substantial potential of FloorSAV with accurate spatial information.
[CV-120] Collaboratively Guided Adversarial Robust Distillation with Teacher-Favorable Examples
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11306
作者: Zhi Li,Haowei Liu,Hongchen Yang,Xiaoxuan Wang,Song Gao,Shaowen Yao,Wei Zhou
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Adversarial distillation transfers robustness from high-capacity teachers to compact students. Existing adversarial distillation methods mainly use teacher predictions on clean or adversarial examples to supervise student learning. However, teacher-favorable supervision within the perturbation neighborhood remains underexplored in adversarial distillation. We therefore propose Collaboratively Guided Adversarial Robust Distillation (CGARD), which jointly optimizes distinct student-adversarial and teacher-collaborative examples within the same perturbation neighborhood. The teacher-collaborative example is constrained to incur no greater cross-entropy loss under the teacher than the clean input. CGARD combines collaborative teacher guidance with adversarial teacher supervision to improve robust knowledge transfer. Experiments on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, including white-box evaluation and additional black-box transfer evaluation, demonstrate consistent robustness improvements over strong adversarial distillation baselines.
[CV-121] Efficient Multi-Granularity Knowledge Transfer for Radiology Report Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11303
作者: Xubin Zhong,Zheyu Zhang,Wenjian Qin,Ning Wen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Radiology report generation can automatically generate clinical descriptions from X-ray images, thereby significantly improving the efficiency of radiologists. This task is challenging because it requires medical knowledge to accurately identify diseases and describe them in a professional manner. However, existing methods often overlook the importance of enhancing medical knowledge in describing pivotal areas, a capability that requires models to effectively extract and aggregate knowledge at multiple levels of granularity. Accordingly, we herein propose a novel and compact Efficient Multi-Granularity Knowledge Transfer (\textbfEMGKT) method to address the above issues. First, we encode global knowledge embeddings using a medical vision-language model, which provides contextual medical knowledge. Moreover, we devise a novel Fine-Grained Knowledge Distillation (FGKD) training task which efficiently extract fine-grained knowledge. Specifically, the FGKD training task contains teacher embeddings and student embeddings. Teacher embeddings are encoded using extra priors; while student embeddings are learned from the teacher embeddings through knowledge distillation. During inference, the student embeddings are used to enhance fine-grained knowledge while the teacher embeddings are discarded, resulting in negligible computational costs and no need for extra priors. Finally, we further develop a mixture of disease diagnosis expert classifiers to enhance knowledge extraction. The classifiers are initialized using disease embeddings and are modeled as different experts to address various granularity features. Notably, \textbfEMGKT can be efficiently applied to most existing methods. Extensive experiments are conducted on two widely-used public datasets and various baselines, which demonstrates the effectiveness and transferability of \textbfEMGKT.
[CV-122] CATS: Fast Video Generation via Interaction-Aware Sparse Attention and Timestep-Adaptive Sparsity
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11302
作者: Chengfeng Han,Baole Ai,Xianlu Bian,Jie Yao,Zilong Huang,Ang Wang,Dandan Ding
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Training-free sparse attention offers a practical acceleration solution to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) via reducing computations without fine-tuning. It typically involves estimating the importance of query-key regions and deriving sparse masks to compute only the important candidates, which inevitably introduces approximation errors that may degrade generation quality. To better balance the efficiency-quality trade-off, we propose iCATS, integrating improved importance estimation and sparse mask construction with an efficient hardware execution strategy. Specifically, for importance estimation, unlike previous works that perform independent clustering over query and key tokens based on feature similarity to estimate attention scores, iCATS demonstrates that clustering based on query-key dot-product interactions is more accurate and further reformulates this objective as a simple quadratic form for low-cost computation. For sparse mask construction, instead of using a fixed top-p rule, we observe that tolerance to sparse approximation errors varies across denoising timesteps and therefore introduce an SNR-guided sparsity schedule to adjust sparsity dynamically, leading to higher accuracy. Finally, for hardware execution, we devise a tail-merging strategy to reduce padding overhead caused by irregular cluster sizes, improving GPU kernel utilization. Extensive experiments show that iCATS achieves 2.03\times acceleration with 31.017 dB PSNR on HunyuanVideo-T2V-13B and 1.55\times acceleration with 29.301 dB PSNR on Wan2.1-T2V-14B, delivering a state-of-the-art efficiency-quality trade-off.
[CV-123] Spatial-Frequency-Aware Implicit Neural Representation of Multidimensional Signals via MLP-KAN Fusion
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11296
作者: Wen Yan,Ligen Shi,Jun Qiu,Haimiao Zhang,Lina Wu,Chang Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a compelling paradigm for modeling multidimensional signals by mapping continuous coordinates to signal values. However, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP)-based INRs inherently suffer from spectral bias, which favors low-frequency components and suppresses the reconstruction of essential high-frequency details. While existing techniques, such as Fourier feature mappings, mitigate this issue, they often rely on sensitive manual tuning and are prone to spectral artifacts. In this paper, we propose a spatial-frequency-aware INR framework that combines an MLP branch with a Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) branch for complementary frequency-oriented modeling. The MLP branch provides a low-frequency-oriented representation of smooth structures, whereas the KAN branch complements localized variations and fine details. To coordinate the two branches, we integrate the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and inverse discrete wavelet transform (IDWT) into the output fusion stage. The outputs of the two branches are decomposed into wavelet coefficients, and the corresponding coefficients are additively fused before inverse wavelet reconstruction. A wavelet-domain band-separation regularization further penalizes high-frequency responses in the MLP branch and low-frequency responses in the KAN branch, thereby encouraging complementary frequency-oriented behavior. Experiments on 1D signals, 2D images, 3D volumes and signed distance functions, videos, and 4D light-fields demonstrate the applicability of the proposed representation across the evaluated signal modalities. Results demonstrate improved reconstruction fidelity across the evaluated signal modalities.
[CV-124] When Scene Text Hijacks the Scene: Uncovering Exploiting and Mitigating Rendered-Text Semantic Leakage in Image Generation Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11286
作者: Feifei Li,Runjie Wang,Xiaohan Zhang,Zhenxing Qian,Mi Wen,Mi Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: To appear in the 2027 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE SP 2027)
Abstract:The reliability and accountability of image generative models (IGMs) are essential for building responsible and trustworthy AI systems. Recent IGMs, such as Nano Banana and GPT-Image, now support complex instruction following, realistic image synthesis, and controllable scene-text rendering. As these capabilities expand, safety analysis must also account for new control channels introduced by complex prompts. In this work, we study rendered-text semantic leakage, a largely overlooked phenomenon in open-domain text rendering. Although rendered text is intended to serve as a local visual constraint that should be reproduced verbatim in the generated image, it also carries linguistic semantics that may be interpreted by the model as part of the input instruction. This makes rendered text a potential semantic control channel whose safety implications remain insufficiently understood. We systematically characterize this phenomenon by decoupling the main visual prompt from the rendered text and measuring their individual and compositional effects on generated images. We quantify semantic leakage and rendering fidelity, and further analyze how leakage emerges from intermediate model evidence. We then show that harmful semantics embedded in scene text can persist through LLM-based prompt enhancement pipelines and steer non-text image regions, even when the main visual prompt remains benign. Finally, we propose a preliminary mitigation approach that reduces unsafe semantic transfer from rendered text to non-text regions while preserving the intended text-rendering behavior on FLUX-2-dev. Our findings reveal rendered text as a dual-use carrier of visible data and latent semantics, exposing a text-centric cross-modal attack surface in modern IGMs.
[CV-125] Being-M0.7: A Latent World-Action Model for Humanoid Robots
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11283
作者: Junpeng Yue,Boyuan Li,Yuxuan Wang,Zepeng Wang,Yuhui Fu,Feiyang Xie,Yu Zhang,Jing Zhang,Xianqi Zhang,Weibo Li,Xiaofei Zheng,Yuming Fang,Jiangxing Wang,Zongqing Lu
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated locomotion and manipulation informed by future scene evolution and whole-body motion, yet learning these capabilities is constrained by scarce robot demonstrations. Human video and motion datasets offer scalable supervision, but many contain only video or motion rather than paired video-motion data. Moreover, human motion does not directly specify executable robot actions. We present Being-M0.7, a latent world-action model that transfers visual-motion priors learned from mixed-modality human data to humanoid control through pre-training, robot mid-training, and action post-training. We curate a corpus from more than 10,000 hours of raw human-centric data, integrating video-only, motion-only, and paired video-motion streams to learn complementary visual dynamics and whole-body kinematic structure. Joint prediction of future latent visual states and motion encourages visual representations to encode future kinematics. Robot mid-training adapts this coarse-grained prior to robot viewpoints and body dynamics. During action post-training, an action expert combines visual predictive representations from the frozen, adapted prior with current images and proprioception through gated cross-attention, grounding predictive context in executable whole-body commands. Being-M0.7 achieves the highest aggregate success rate among the compared baselines on SIMPLE and matches the strongest baseline on real-world Unitree G1 loco-manipulation tasks.
[CV-126] LR-V2X: Loss-Resilient Collaborative Perception under Low-Bandwidth Communication
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11264
作者: Kang Yang,Tianci Bu,Peng Wang,Deying Li,Yongcai Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Given the inherent unpredictability of packet loss in vehicular wireless communications, V2X collaborative perception can yield practical benefits only if agents can achieve reliable collaboration under lossy and low-bandwidth communication conditions. Existing dense BEV feature fusion methods depend on redundant BEV feature exchange, which is infeasible in low-bandwidth scenarios, while compact-communication methods aggressively compress messages but can hardly recover the missing feature content after packet loss. In this paper, we present LR-V2X, a loss-resilient, latent-space reconstruction framework that converts corrupted received latents (even under severe 90% packet loss) into a spatial prior and then reconstructs the missing BEV information from this informative prior and using ego context as condition. Notably, the model can be trained under complete communication conditions and can be directly applied to lossy conditions at test time, eliminating the need for training under numerous lossy conditions. Experiments on DAIR-V2X and V2XREAL show that LR-V2X delivers the strongest robustness under severe packet loss and preserves reliable collaboration as communication quality degrades. And it reduces communication overhead by 64\times compared to dense BEV feature fusion baselines. Code will be released at this https URL.
[CV-127] V-CoLA: Vision Token Compression with Linear Attention
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11251
作者: Hao Jiang,Yiru Mao,Tianpeng Bu,Hao Zhou,Hongtao Duan,Wang Jing,Bowen Xu,Xin Chen,Lulu Hu,Bin Yang,Yongliang Tao,Minying Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities but suffer from substantial computational overhead, as vision tokens dominate the input sequence. This motivates vision token compression as a key direction to alleviate the burden. However, with the emergence of hybrid architectures incorporating linear attention (\eg, Qwen3.5), prior methods designed for softmax attention struggle to generalize. Our analysis reveals that both attention- and similarity-based approaches suffer notable performance degradation, underscoring the urgent need for compression methods tailored to this regime. To this end, we propose \textbfV-CoLA, an efficient training-free token compression framework specifically designed for linear attention. V-CoLA introduces a novel \textituniqueness-aware importance criterion for identifying critical vision tokens, coupled with an \textitadaptive token merging strategy that performs compression. All components are optimized at the implementation level to remain compatible with the chunk-wise parallelism of linear attention, ensuring strong practical value. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of V-CoLA: it achieves 99.5% of the original performance with only 50.0% of vision tokens, and over 88.0% with as few as 12.5%, while delivering a 1.86 \times to 6.15 \times prefill speedup.
[CV-128] Attributing HOW Not Just WHICH: Counterfactual Response Trajectories for Diffusion Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11238
作者: Haoqian Zhang,Ziyuan Yang,Zerui Shao,Yi Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation, yet tracing their outputs to individual training examples remains challenging. Existing attribution methods often compress factor-specific effects into scalar responses, making distinct internal changes indistinguishable. This is particularly limiting for diffusion models, where semantic factors emerge through evolving representation dynamics during denoising. We therefore reformulate diffusion data attribution as attributing factor-induced internal response trajectories. In this paper, we propose a novel Concept Attribution method through Dynamic Trajectories(CADT). We argue that attribution should therefore ask not only \emphwhich examples matter, but also \emphhow their influence unfolds during generation. Specifically, we construct matched counterfactual pairs at identical noisy states to isolate factor-specific representation displacements, and model their directional and magnitude evolution across denoising as dynamic attribution signatures. For each training example and generated query, CADT extracts stage-wise feature vectors and integrates them along the denoising process to form a trajectory descriptor. Applying the same construction across the training set yields a bank of factor-specific trajectory descriptors. The covariance statistics of this bank are then used to construct . CADT uses this covariance-aware positive-semidefinite kernel to calibrate the query and training representations, and compares the calibrated query trajectory with each training trajectory to produce the final training-sample attribution scores. Experiments on multiple public datasets show consistent improvements over existing diffusion attribution baselines across hierarchical, compositional, and style attribution.
[CV-129] Breaking the Group Size Barrier: Parameter-Efficient Group Dance Generation with Chain-of-Dancers NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11237
作者: Jing Xu,Cunjian Chen,Qiuhong Ke
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Sound (cs.SD)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Group dance generation aims to synthesize coordinated multi-dancer choreography from music, with broad applications in animation and interactive content creation. This task requires modeling dense inter-person dependencies to ensure spatial coordination, while naturally preserving individual dancer identities. Existing approaches model all dancers jointly with end-to-end transformers, which tie the architecture to a fixed group size and entangle per-dancer identities across frames. We propose ChainDance, a scalable framework that reformulates group dance generation as a Chain-of-Dancers: a sequential decomposition over per-dancer conditional distributions, allowing a single model to scale across variable group sizes without retraining and naturally preserving per-dancer identity. Built on a frozen single-dancer diffusion backbone, ChainDance introduces two lightweight modules: a Role-Aware Text Encoder (RATE) for per-dancer semantic conditioning, and a Group-Aware Motion Encoder (GAME) that aggregates previously generated dancers via a distance-weighted graph convolutional network, and incorporates a training-free noise optimization procedure at inference time to enforce global spatial coherence. Experiments on AIOZ-GDance demonstrate that ChainDance achieves state-of-the-art motion quality and group coordination while structurally preserving per-dancer identity, with 3 - 4\times fewer parameters and requiring 3 - 6\times less training time compared to prior approaches.
[CV-130] Harness Compilation: Which Decisions Should a Small Vision-Language Model Keep?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11231
作者: Minhao Fan,Yinyi Liu,Jiayu Zhao,Zihan Teng,Song Chen,Weichen Liu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 58 pages, 10 figures, including appendices
Abstract:Small vision-language models may be able to read external evidence yet struggle to obtain it. We introduce Harness Compilation (HC), an offline procedure that adapts the division of work between a frozen small VLM and its external harness. A large teacher uses student execution traces to revise reusable content and control, while a separate validation set selects the deployed harness. Deployment requires neither weight updates nor teacher calls. Across seven visual question-answering settings with students of at most 9B parameters, HC improves scores over bare students by 9.9-23.9 points, averaged over three independent builds per setting. Interventions on five runtime decision types (invocation, selection, argument generation, evidence integration and abstention) show why this allocation matters: requesting evidence and generating open queries can be costly, whereas bounded choices and reading supplied text can remain useful student work. Fact cards benefit all ten evaluated students, but decision policies transfer unevenly. Recompilation for a new student model helps when the transferred interface no longer fits the student. With 100 practice items, HC exceeds answer-only LoRA on three tasks. Larger training budgets can match or surpass a fixed harness, while combining the two improves SlideVQA beyond either alone. These findings support allocating work from measured student behavior rather than uniformly removing decisions.
[CV-131] How Firm Should a Grasp Be?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11221
作者: Matthew Beveridge,Shree K. Nayar
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: CoRL 2026
Abstract:An ideal robot grasp is firm enough to securely handle an object, yet gentle enough to avoid damaging it. Achieving this balance requires knowledge of the object’s material properties, such as its mass, elasticity, and surface friction. These properties, however, are seldom precisely known a priori. In this work, we propose a visuotactile approach to estimating material properties in real time, during the process of grasping. Our method uses these estimated properties to determine the minimum grasp force required to handle the object. We contribute a new dataset of real-world objects (fruits and vegetables) with measured physical properties (shape, mass, elasticity, and friction), which we use to construct our force estimation model via simulations. We experimentally validate our approach to grasp force control using a robot with a parallel-jaw gripper. We demonstrate our system’s ability to gently grasp a wide variety of objects, in each case adapting to their unique physical properties.
[CV-132] GATOR: Generative and Agent ic 3D Object Reconstruction From Casual Images
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11215
作者: Qirui Wu,Stan Birchfield,Hesam Rabeti,Angel X. Chang,Bowen Wen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Reconstructing complete, scene-aligned 3D objects from casual images requires integrating sparse, uncertain observations and inferring surfaces hidden by occlusions. We present GATOR, a generative and agentic framework that recovers textured object assets and their scene-relative pose from one or more images. Our local modality mixer couples patch-aligned RGB, target-mask, and pointmap features before cross-view reasoning, preserving scene context while distinguishing the target from its surroundings. Text-guided semantic conditioning complements these spatial cues with category names and object captions through stage-specific adapters for structure, geometry, and appearance generation. The generated asset initializes a multimodal agent, providing instance-specific geometry and pose for targeted structural and texture refinement through an observation-guided edit-render-review loop. Across synthetic objects, cluttered tabletops, and indoor scenes, GATOR achieves strong geometric and appearance fidelity while recovering scene-relative pose from sparse observations. Time-budget comparisons and scene-level simulation further demonstrate the reconstruction efficiency and simulation readiness. Project page: this https URL
[CV-133] Dissecting Representation Structure in Vision Transformers: A Rigorous Architectural Study
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11205
作者: Kim-Cuc Nguyen,Ngai-Man Cheung
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted in IEEE VCIP 2026
Abstract:Representation structure is crucial for understanding Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures and their generalization behavior. However, prior studies neither isolate nor analyze module-level features nor investigate how their interactions contribute to performance estimation. In this work, we conduct the first rigorous analysis of feature information across diverse architectural scales, empirically uncover the relationship between ViT representation and generalization behavior, and leverage these insights to guide efficient ViT design. Our contributions are fivefold: Across diverse architectural scales, 1) We identify feature collapse at initialization, which leads to redundancy, and propose a reduction scheme to mitigate this issue. 2) We quantify feature information using entropy and the minimum eigenvalue, demonstrating that these metrics serve as reliable indicators for generalization prediction. 3) We show that feature in the token space provides a more faithful representation than those in embedding space. 4) We discover an unexpected finding: features produced by linear submodules within ViT layers are critical for the prediction of generalization performance. 5) Our proposed proxy improves the correlation ranking by 18-48% over prior baselines and can effectively identify ViT architectures that achieve higher accuracy at lower or comparable computational cost.
[CV-134] 3DTexMOR: 3D Gaussian Multi-Object Removal via Texture-Space Inpainting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11198
作者: Kunxin Guang,Yonghao Zhao,Jian Yang,Beibei Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 17 pages, including appendix. Kunxin Guang and Yonghao Zhao contributed equally
Abstract:3D object removal aims to remove target objects from reconstructed scenes and complete the geometry and appearance of occluded regions. Existing NeRF- and 3DGS-based methods typically inpaint 2D images to guide 3D completion. However, complex multi-object layouts limit the surrounding context visible in each view, making 2D inpainting prone to artifacts. Inconsistent completions across views also introduce conflicting supervision and blurry reconstructions. We propose 3D Gaussian Multi-Object Removal via Texture-Space Inpainting (3DTexMOR). Our key idea is to perform inpainting in a unified texture space shared by all views. By combining complementary observations, this space provides richer context for recovering missing regions and promotes cross-view appearance consistency. We aggregate multi-view observations into texture maps, inpaint the missing regions, and reproject the completed maps into camera views to supervise Gaussian scene completion. To avoid the influence of view-dependent highlights and reflections, we decompose appearance and aggregate view-independent intrinsic attributes instead of RGB colors. We further introduce geometrically regularized Gaussian completion to constrain the geometry of the completed regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate visually plausible completions and state-of-the-art multi-object removal performance, improving PSNR by 5.8 dB and reducing LPIPS by at least 22% compared with existing methods.
[CV-135] OmniDex: Scaling Dexterous Hand Grasping to Diverse Cluttered Scenes
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11194
作者: Naiyu Fang,Zhongjin Luo,Yuxin Mo,Siyuan Huang,Jianbo Liu,Yufei Liu,Zheyuan Zhou,Chenkai Jin,Xiaogang Wang,Hongsheng Li
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Dexterous grasping is the foundational primitive in embodied AI, demanding massive data to train robust models. As real-world data collection is expensive, simulation has become the mainstream paradigm. Yet, while cluttered scenes best reflect real-world applications, learning to grasp within them is bottlenecked by a critical scarcity of large-scale data. To resolve this, we curate high-quality 3D objects and supporting bases, proposing a scalable seed-and-filter strategy that bypasses sluggish scene-level optimization. This yields an unprecedented benchmark comprising over 2.6 million scenes and 0.4B scene-specific grasp ground truths, featuring diverse realistic layouts paired with rich semantic and geometric observations. Furthermore, we introduce the OmniDex model to overcome the grasp multimodality and last-millimeter precision errors plaguing current generative models. By coupling Soft Winner-Takes-All learning with human-inspired physical constraints during training, and utilizing physics-driven ranking, our approach achieves robust dexterous grasping without the latency of post-optimization. Experimental results show that OmniDex model achieves state-of-the-art performance and strong generalization across diverse scenes, views, and unseen objects.
[CV-136] RGBD-to-3D Object Mesh Refinement via Depth Matching and Symmetry Propagation ACCV2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11187
作者: Ahyun Seo,Minsu Cho
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: To be appear in ACCV2026
Abstract:Single-view 3D reconstructors often produce plausible meshes that disagree with the input view, especially near depth discontinuities and self-occlusions. We present a lightweight, plug-and-play RGBD-to-3D refinement that improves any RGB-to-3D reconstructor without retraining. Given a depth map, we correct the visible surface by bipartite matching to back-projected depth points, mirror these corrections onto the occluded side across a detected symmetry plane, and propagate them with a smoothness solver. Every stage is closed-form, making the method orders of magnitude faster than optimization-heavy test-time refinement. On GSO and OmniObject3D with five backbones, it yields consistent gains, also with monocular pseudo-depth, benefits more from symmetry on symmetric objects, and compares favorably with prior refinement in accuracy and runtime. It further improves an RGB-D-to-mesh reconstructor and transfers to real captures with noisy sensor depth.
[CV-137] WorldFact-Bench: Beyond Image-Internal Plausibility to Image-World Consistency
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11184
作者: Zhuohong Chen,Zhengxian Wu,Yunyao Yu,Hangrui Xu,Zijian Yu,Hao Tan,Zhifang Liu,Peng Jiao,Jun Lan,Haoqian Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Advances in image generation have made visual authenticity increasingly difficult to assess. Although image forensics now examines both generation artifacts and higher-level visual inconsistencies, a plausible image can still contradict real-world facts or rules. We introduce WorldFact-Bench to evaluate image-world consistency from a single image, without a predefined claim or verification target. The benchmark contains 1,274 source-aligned real-fake pairs across four verification regimes and ten semantic domains. Each pair introduces a specific, evidence-supported factual conflict while seeking to preserve non-target content and visual plausibility. Images are evaluated independently, and pair accuracy requires both members of a pair to be classified correctly. We further propose PERSIST-Agent, which organizes iterative verification around a persistent state linking candidate facts, visual observations, evidence, and verification statuses. This state guides subsequent inspection and retrieval while retaining unresolved candidates. With backbone weights fixed, harness self-optimization refines the agent’s prompts and execution rules through validation feedback. Experiments reveal strong label biases in several detectors and uneven gains from retrieval. On the evaluated 8B backbones, PERSIST-Agent improves pair accuracy over both direct judgment and retrieval-augmented baselines, while ablations support the role of persistent verification state. These findings highlight the value of state-guided verification and the remaining gap between visual plausibility and factual correctness.
[CV-138] MATE4D: Matrix-Guided Editable 4D Generation from a Single Image
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11181
作者: Xiaotian Chen,Dongfu Yin
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Generative models have rapidly pushed content creation be-yond 2D imagery toward dynamic 3D and 4D scene synthesis. Yet pro-ducing realistic and temporally stable 4D content from a single image is still difficult because one view provides limited structural cues and weak motion evidence. We introduce MATE4D, a framework that converts one input image into editable dynamic 4D content. Our method constructs a spatio-temporal multi-view image matrix with text-guided background manipulation, delivering coherent supervision over viewpoint, appear-ance, and motion. These synthesized observations are used to optimize 3D Gaussian primitives, which are then animated through a lightweight deformation module to form a 4D representation. The resulting scenes preserve geometry more faithfully, maintain smoother temporal behavior, and keep background edits more consistent, reducing context ambiguity and motion artifacts. Experiments on Objaverse-XL and Diffusion4D show that MATE4D outperforms strong baselines in visual quality, effi-ciency, and controllability, supporting practical AR/VR content creation.
[CV-139] Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Registration: A Comprehensive Review Challenges and Prospects
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11176
作者: Zhiqiang Han,Yuanxin Ye,Qiuyun Wu,Jinhao Chen,Bai Zhu,Siyuan Hao
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 12 figures, 8 tables, 135 references. Review article accepted for publication in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (ASPS), manuscript number PERS-26-00034
Abstract:Multimodal remote sensing image registration is a crucial prerequisite for the collaborative processing and downstream application of remote sensing data, such as image fusion, change detection, and target recognition. However, significant variations in radiometry, geometry, scale, viewpoint, and time often exist between multimodal images. These differences, driven by varying sensor geometries, physical radiation mechanisms, imaging platforms, and environmental disturbances, pose severe challenges to achieving high-precision, robust registration. This paper systematically reviews the progress of mainstream multimodal remote sensing image registration methods. Based on their registration pipelines, existing approaches are categorized into three main types: region-based, feature-based, and deep learning-based methods. We detail the core principles, representative algorithms, advantages, and limitations of each category. Additionally, we summarize publicly available multimodal image datasets in the remote sensing domain, analyzing their specific characteristics and applicable scenarios. Finally, we highlight current bottlenecks in high-precision registration research and outline future development trends. This review aims to provide a comprehensive reference and valuable insights for researchers in related fields.
[CV-140] IntactWorld: Joint World Modeling with Intact Features
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11174
作者: Boming Tan,Xiangdong Zhang,Yan Xia,Qi Zhu,Deyi Ji,Xue Yang,Shaofeng Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:While recent video generation models synthesize highly realistic visuals, they lack a genuine understanding of intrinsic real-world logic. Existing methods attempt to understand the world by internalizing diverse world knowledge, yet constrained by computational overhead or dimensionality alignment, their learning processes inevitably compress features, causing a severe loss of structural information. To address this, we propose \textbfIntactWorld, a \textbfJoint World Modeling Architecture utilizing uncompressed \textbfIntact Features. Since data naturally reside on a low-dimensional manifold within a high-dimensional space, predicting the flow velocity v within this uncompressed high-dimensional space induces a severe manifold gap. To successfully eliminate this optimization bottleneck, our framework instead predicts the clean feature x_0 at intermediate layers. Furthermore, to mitigate the computational overhead of incorporating complete world knowledge, we introduce a \textitFull-to-Compact Training Paradigm. By replacing raw full features with highly refined CLS tokens, this paradigm enables efficient single-branch guidance, reducing spatial memory consumption by 11.4% and cutting inference latency by 43.8%. Extensive evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of IntactWorld, outperforming established baselines by 2.46 points on the VBench 2.0 benchmark.
[CV-141] VAMR: Multi-Question Agent ic Reasoning for Efficient Long-Form Video Understanding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11171
作者: Runquan Gui,Hanzhu Chen,Zehao Wang,Hanxin Zhu,Xin Li,Zhibo Chen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Long-form video understanding often involves multiple questions about different aspects of the same recording. Yet existing video agents typically process each question through an isolated tool-use trajectory. This repeatedly restarts video exploration and memory construction, missing opportunities to acquire evidence jointly and progressively build a shared understanding that supports the complete question set. We introduce \textbfVAMR (\textbfVideo \textbfAgent for \textbfMulti-Question \textbfReasoning), which coordinates all questions about a video through one shared tool-use trajectory. At each round, a persistent policy model can invoke tools for one or more unresolved questions and submit answers for questions with sufficient evidence. Question-conditioned visual perception retrieves fine-grained clues for several questions in one call, while layered multi-question memory integrates reusable context into a shared video story and preserves separate evidence for individual questions. After supervised fine-tuning initializes this interaction protocol, we propose question-horizon policy optimization (\qhpo) to optimize shared trajectories in which questions progress and finish at different rounds. Specifically, a question-level critic estimates the value of each active question, while round alignment maps each question advantage to the rounds that directly serve it before the aligned advantages are aggregated to optimize the shared actor. Across LVBench, Video-Holmes, and LongVideoBench, VAMR achieves the highest accuracy overall and the fewest reasoning rounds among iterative methods. On LVBench, it reaches 62.1% accuracy, exceeding VideoARM by \textbf4.3 points while reducing reasoning rounds and processed frames by \textbf85.9% and \textbf61.4%.
[CV-142] AutoAdapt: Reliable Few-Shot Adaptation under Clinical Distribution Shifts
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11162
作者: Song Wang,Jie Peng,Davis Hobley,Zachary Plotkin,Tianlong Chen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Large pretrained clinical models provide a practical way to reuse learned prior knowledge across hospitals by adapting models to them. In practice, a target hospital may only have a small labeled patient cohort, a setting commonly referred to as few-shot adaptation. This requires making multiple decisions, such as which pretrained model to adapt, how much of the model to update, and which patients to use. Nevertheless, this process faces two primary challenges. First, the best adaptation strategy varies across clinical tasks. Second, evaluating and comparing candidate strategies becomes unreliable due to the small patient cohort. In this work, we introduce AutoAdapt with two core designs to deal with these challenges. The Adapter defines an extensible space of adaptation recipes, and the Automator forms a weighted recipe combination from evidence within the adaptation patients. We propose a reliability rule to ensure that only the most effective strategy on most available patients will be selected. These selected strategies then form a combination for effective few-shot adaptation. We conduct extensive experiments across critical care, emergency care, and diagnostic datasets, and the results show that AutoAdapt consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance using only a few patients for adaptation.
[CV-143] VGGTWorld-VLA: Intent-Conditioned 3D World Evolution for Autonomous Driving
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11161
作者: Zhaoyang Liu,Kun Jiang,Ziying Song,Diange Yang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
备注: 20 pages, 9 figures
Abstract:VGGT provides a strong foundation for geometry-centric world models by recovering unified 3D scene geometry from visual observations. Although recent extensions enable temporal 3D prediction, their future evolution remains weakly conditioned on driving intentions and actions, limiting their ability to model alternative action-dependent futures. We propose VGGTWorld-VLA, an intention-conditioned extension of VGGT-World for controllable 3D world evolution in autonomous driving. First, we introduce an action–semantic conditioning mechanism that injects complementary driving semantics and ego-motion representations into the future-token stream, enabling different future geometry predictions for the same observed scene under alternative ego actions. Second, we develop a geometry–language–action bridge that adapts historical geometry, VLA semantic features, and maneuver and trajectory representations for joint conditioning of future geometry prediction. We evaluate future geometry prediction on NAVSIM, while conditioning ablations further examine the contributions of semantic and action information. Compared with the baseline, our method demonstrates competitive geometry prediction performance. Ablation studies further support the effectiveness of semantic and action conditioning. These results demonstrate the potential of semantic and action conditioning for controllable VGGT-based world prediction in autonomous driving.
[CV-144] CARE: Constrained Attention Refinement for Fine-Grained Visual Classification via Teacher-Student Distillation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11153
作者: Ruibo Wen,Hang Shao,Yiming Lei
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 15 pages
Abstract:Fine-grained visual classification requires models to recognize subtle local traits while exposing the visual evidence behind their predictions. Class-specific attention pathways provide a natural basis for interpretable recognition, but their constrained prediction structure limits discriminative capacity and underuses intermediate representations from strong pretrained backbones. To address this problem, we propose CARE, a constrained attention refinement framework for interpretable fine-grained recognition via teacher-student distillation. CARE keeps the final prediction and explanation within a class-specific attention student, while introducing a training-only auxiliary query teacher that reads selected intermediate DINOv2 layers with learnable queries. The teacher fuses multi-level representations and transfers logit-standardized class-discriminative knowledge to the student. To further refine the explanation pathway, we design diversity and sparsity terms to regularize student attention heads, reducing redundancy and encouraging compact trait localization. Experiments on CUB, Oxford-IIIT Pet, Stanford Dogs, and Stanford Cars show that CARE achieves strong classification performance under an interpretable frozen-backbone setting, reaching 78.5% Top-1 accuracy on CUB. Faithfulness analysis with insertion and deletion metrics further indicates that the top-ranked attention regions retain class-relevant evidence for explanation.
[CV-145] A Unified Score Matching Paradigm for Video Anomaly Detection and Anticipation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11149
作者: Congqi Cao,Zhenhe Liang,Hanwen Zhang,Yifan Zhao,Qinyi Lv,Lingtong Min,Yanning Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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Abstract:Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a fundamental and safety-critical task in computer vision. Recent generative approaches detect anomalies from a distributional perspective, but remain limited by local anomaly modes. Meanwhile, video anomaly anticipation (VAA), as a proactive extension beyond post-hoc detection, introduces additional challenges. In particular, the contrastive inference paradigm in VAD, which relies on ground-truth frames, is not applicable to VAA, hindering its development. To address these challenges, we propose a unified score-driven framework, termed Uni-DSM, based on denoising score matching (DSM), which models anomaly patterns through likelihood estimation and score functions over the learned data distribution. Within this unified framework, we adopt a shared noise-conditioned score transformer backbone with scene-dependent embeddings and motion-aware weighting for distribution-level modeling. Instead of introducing separate architectures, Uni-DSM unifies VAD and VAA through different inference and supervision paradigms built upon the same score-based formulation. For VAD, we instantiate an autoregressive denoising score matching (ADSM) mechanism, which progressively accumulates anomalous evidence via autoregressive denoising, enabling enhanced perception of local modes beyond visual cues. For VAA, we extend the same architecture by incorporating a lightweight auxiliary decoder and a novel self-distilled denoising score matching (SDSM) mechanism. By constructing supervision from output discrepancies instead of relying on unavailable future ground truth, our method achieves efficient training suitable or early anomaly anticipation. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in both VAD and VAA while maintaining high efficiency, establishing a unified and scalable pipeline from anomaly detection to anticipation.
[CV-146] SP-DocReader: Difference-Aware Self-Play for Precise Document OCR
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11148
作者: Wenjie Liao,Xiaohui Song,Liangjie Zhao,Haonan Lu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Accurate page transcription remains difficult for vision language models under limited input and training budgets. We present SP-DocReader, a self-play framework for optical character recognition (OCR) that targets residual errors after supervised fine-tuning. Reading Discrepancy Masking aligns reference and generated model tokens through a longest common subsequence, then scores unmatched positions with their full conditioning prefixes. Focused Fidelity Loss adds direct negative log-likelihood supervision at unmatched ground-truth positions. Only the OCR module is trained, while the backbone remains frozen. We derive the combined gradient to distinguish relative score optimization from direct supervision. Compared with SFT-2, SP-DR-3 reduces Vary-600K character error rate on both backbones. On Qwen3-VL-4B, it reduces character error rate by approximately 54 percent and improves DocVQA Average Normalized Levenshtein Similarity (ANLS) by 3.7 points. These results show the value of focusing self-play training on the discrepancies that remain after supervised fine-tuning.
[CV-147] Improving Image-Based Nutrition Estimation Through Multimodal Food-Item Verification and Recovery ICASSP2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11144
作者: Jingbo Yue,Bruce Coburn,Jinge Ma,Jui-Feng Chi,Fengqing Zhu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
备注: 5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2027
Abstract:Single-image nutrition estimation can fail silently when visible foods are missed. Even when a food is correctly identified, its proposed region may not support portion estimation. We propose a framework that uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to inventory visible foods and separately verify food identity and whether each proposed 2D region supports portion estimation. One whole-image review uses these verification results to identify unresolved gaps and omitted foods, triggering at most one targeted recovery pass. Recovered regions are re-verified without access to the recovery prompt, then reconciled into a final item set for nutrition estimation. The framework requires no task-specific fine-tuning. Matched evaluation on common valid-output samples shows that item-level grounding improves mass accuracy across all tested settings and energy accuracy relative to an adapted retrieval baseline, with item-identity precision and recall also improving, while post-recovery visual coverage is assessed separately at inference time without ground-truth annotations.
[CV-148] IntrinSync: Joint Intrinsic Decomposition and Reciprocal Rendering
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11138
作者: Zheng Gu,Rui Huang,Xilu Zhang,Jingbo Zhang,Min Lu,Zhida Sun,Dani Lischinski,Daniel Cohen-Or,Hui Huang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Inverse rendering decomposes an image into intrinsic properties such as appearance, illumination, geometry, and material, yet these properties are inherently interdependent. A reliable decomposition should produce intrinsic maps that are not only individually plausible, but also mutually compatible in explaining the image. However, existing methods either model intrinsic channels in isolation or treat inverse and forward rendering as separate processes, leaving the interdependence underexploited. In this paper, we introduce IntrinSync, a unified framework that captures this interdependence through joint-channel modeling and reciprocal inverse-forward rendering. At the channel level, we jointly decompose an input RGB into albedo, shading, surface normal, roughness, and metallic maps through a 1-to-N mapping, enabling information exchange across channels throughout generation. At the process level, we establish inverse-forward reciprocity through a dual cycle-consistent objective that aligns corresponding predictions across a closed loop. Experiments on three datasets demonstrate that our method achieves competitive intrinsic estimation and forward rendering performance, improving coherence and physical consistency. Beyond decomposition, IntrinSync provides a physically grounded interface for image editing, allowing intrinsic properties to be explicitly manipulated and rendered back into RGB images.
[CV-149] MCL: Meta Convolution Layer
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11117
作者: Naim Reza,Md Al Amin,Ho Yub Jung
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Dynamic convolution enhances convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by adapting kernels to input content, but it expresses the effective kernel as a linear mixture of a small number of basis kernels, which limits expressivity and complicates optimization as the mixture size grows. In this work, we revisit dynamic convolution from a functional perspective and propose the Meta Convolution Layer (MCL), which directly models the convolutional kernel as an input-conditioned function W(x) realized via a high-order polynomial expansion. Leveraging nested residual blocks inspired by deep polynomial networks, MCL implements a structured polynomial meta-network that generates a single input-adaptive kernel, thereby decoupling representational power from the explicit number of mixture kernels and alleviating training instability. MCL is a plug-in addition with standard convolutions and can be seamlessly integrated into both CNN and transformer backbones. Experimental evaluation shows that adding MCL improves the Top-1 accuracy of Resnet- 18, Resnet-50 and ResNet-101 by 6.61%, 3.42% and 3.05% on the ImageNet dataset. Moreover, the proposed method significantly boosts the accuracy of Resnet and Wide-Resnet variants on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets. Additionally, the proposed method outperforms previous methods on fine-grained visual classification tasks using Swin and ViT backbones. These results demonstrate that high-order polynomial kernel generation is a powerful and scalable alternative to linear mixture based dynamic convolution.
[CV-150] DiscoVL: Unveiling Disentangled C ross-Modal Representation Learning via Orthogonal Adversarial Regularization for V ision-Language Models ECCV2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11113
作者: Mengping Dong,Jinbao Li,Fei Li
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 20 pages, 6 figures, 11 tables. Accepted to ECCV 2026
Abstract:Pre-trained vision-language models excel across varied perception tasks, but adapting them to novel downstream settings without sacrificing generalization remains non-trivial. Existing parameter-efficient prompt learning method often yields inconsistent representations and fails to account for semantic distribution shifts. In this work, we present DiscoVL, a disentangled cross-modal representation learning framework that couples orthogonal adversarial regularization with structured cross-modal alignment for vision-language models. To address the insufficient cross-modal interaction, our DiscoVL designs a multi-branch low-rank residual aligner that decomposes representations into subspaces and enables bidirectional cross-modal feedback between visual and textual streams at each layer. Furthermore, while conventional triplet constraints overfit features to class centroids, we design an orthogonal regularization for adversarial triplet loss, which prevents centroid collapse and substantially boosts generalization. Evaluations on 15 benchmarks demonstrate that DiscoVL delivers consistent improvements over state-of-the-art methods for base-to-novel generalization, cross-dataset evaluation, and few-shot learning
[CV-151] False Claims Credible Images: A Red-Teaming Benchmark for Commercial Image Generators
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11112
作者: Zeyu Ye,Yanchun Li,Sibei He,Meng Xie,Hangtao Zhang,Xianlong Wang,Li Zeng,Jiahao Chen,Yichen Wang,Junhui Wang,Ziqi Zhou
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 29 pages, 19 figures, 6 tables. Project website: this https URL
Abstract:Image-generation models can now produce text-rich, natural-looking visual artifacts that are hard to distinguish from real-world evidence, such as news reports and textbook pages. Yet, the same capability introduces a new risk: these models can just as easily fabricate visual misinformation. Even commercial models (e.g., GPT-Image-2) readily produce it. Curiously, we find that these models can recognize a claim as false when asked, yet still render that very claim as credible visual evidence. This discrepancy points to a blind spot in current alignment: safeguards judge what an image shows, not what it asserts; however, existing red-teaming benchmarks target conventional harmful content, such as violent or explicit imagery, and say little about where the alignment boundaries lie for visual misinformation, especially in commercial models. To fill this gap, we introduce EpiReal-Bench, the first systematic benchmark for evaluating visual misinformation risks in commercial image generators, comprising 10k false-claim prompts and 10k corresponding generated images that span 10 real-world claim categories and 10 credible visual formats. We further introduce EpiReal-Attack, a skill-guided black-box optimization framework that uses Pareto-based selection and multimodal feedback to identify commands that bypass alignment safeguards while preserving visual realism, textual legibility, and semantic fidelity. Experiments on four commercial models reveal that more than 70% of false-claim prompts elicit images that faithfully depict the corresponding misinformation, and EpiReal-Attack pushes this rate to 95%. Most worryingly, these models are only a click away, and their outputs are cheap to spread yet hard to disbelieve, leaving this dimension of alignment largely unguarded.
[CV-152] KCAM: Text and Keyframe to Camera Trajectory Generation NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11105
作者: Haozhe Yang,Zhiyang Dou,Zekai Gu,Cheng Lin,Wenping Wang,Yuan Liu,Taku Komura
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 20 pages, 7 figures. Paper accepted to NeurIPS2026 (submission number 15461)
Abstract:Generating high-quality and controllable camera motion is essential for AI-assisted cinematography, video synthesis, and 3D scene understanding. We introduce TKCAM, a Text- and Keyframe-conditioned CAMera-motion synthesis framework based on generative masked modeling. We represent camera dynamics using a 12-dimensional kinematic feature comprising position, velocity, and a continuous rotation representation and discretize them into hierarchical motion tokens via a Residual Vector Quantizer (RVQ). A two-stage masked transformer architecture then learns to reconstruct and refine these tokens, utilizing explicit self- and cross-attention modules for multimodal conditioning. A central feature of our framework is sparse visual keyframe conditioning: users can provide free-form text prompts together with RGB observations at selected timestamps, which provide temporally localized visual guidance for generating coherent in-between trajectories. Furthermore, to advance evaluation standards, we curate RealEstate10K-Cap, a large-scale text-camera dataset, and establish a cross-domain benchmark with a Universal CLaTr Evaluator. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TKCAM surpasses recent state-of-the-art baselines on Fréchet distance (FID), text-motion matching scores, and retrieval metrics (R@K), while additional analyses evaluate temporal smoothness and cross-domain generalization. Code is available at this https URL.
[CV-153] Skeleton-Guided Progressive Test-Time Adaptation for Thin Curvilinear Structures
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11104
作者: Boa Jang,JunGyu Lee,Gwanho Lee,Jinwook Choi,Young-Gon Kim
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
备注: 9 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:Accurate segmentation of thin curvilinear structures is vital for various real-world applications, from vessel analysis to road extraction. Yet their intricate geometry makes even minor pixel-wise errors enough to break the global topology, and this structural fragility turns severe domain shifts into catastrophic failures. The difficulty is most acute under cross-modality gaps, where the imaging process itself differs fundamentally between source and target. While test-time adaptation (TTA) offers a practical source-free remedy, existing methods adapt feature statistics and confidence, neither of which constrains connectivity, and thus degrade under such extreme gaps. To address this, we propose Skeleton-Guided Progressive Test-Time Adaptation (SGP-TTA). Progressive Batch Normalization (ProgBN) shifts normalization from frozen source statistics toward current target estimates under a sample-count schedule, so that the source-target balance follows the stage of adaptation rather than a fixed coefficient. Consensus Skeleton Recall (CSR) then derives a structural target from geometrically aligned multi-view predictions and updates only the BN affine parameters to preserve connected structures. Extensive experiments show that SGP-TTA consistently outperforms existing TTA methods in topological connectivity, with the largest margins under cross-modality shift. The project page is available at this https URL.
[CV-154] Continuous Ground-Truth Construction and a Recovery Policy for Air–Water Robotic Tracking ICRA2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11096
作者: Jiangong Xiao,Zhe Sun,Kanzhong Yao,Yuanbo Bi,Haofei Zhao,Ruixuan Hu,Guan Huang,Xuelong Li
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 8 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2027)
Abstract:Visual tracking across the air-water interface is challenged by splashes, bubbles, refraction, reflections, and abrupt appearance changes that can temporarily invalidate observations. This setting poses two coupled difficulties: first, for evaluation, image-only annotation cannot reliably describe the target’s physical location during visual blindness; second, for online tracking, corrupted observations can contaminate motion estimates and appearance templates. We address the first difficulty with a construction pipeline that synchronizes camera frames with motion-capture poses, projects known target geometry, corrects underwater projection with a medium-gated residual, and subjects the annotations to manual review. This yields an evaluation-only cross-medium test set of 22,346 frames. We further introduce a Cross-Medium Recovery Policy (CMRP) centered on confidence-triggered template selection. It supplies MixFormerV2 with the fixed initial template, a window-best pre-trigger template, and a trigger-frame Kalman-guided image crop, together with their associated weights, without retraining the visual backbone. In the accuracy evaluation, CMRP achieves 49.90 Macro Success AUC, 2.95 points above MixFormerV2 Official. On selected cross-medium transition and occlusion-recovery intervals, CMRP increases MixFormerV2 tracking coverage from 47.91% to 50.43% relative to Official updating, while mean loss-to-recovery latency over successfully recovered videos decreases from 55.3 to 49.3 frames.
[CV-155] Contrast Enhancement or Noise Reduction? On Improving Cervical Cancer Classification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11086
作者: Ach Khozaimi,Ulfatun Nahdhiyah
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Purpose: Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Deep learning has shown promising performance in medical image classification. The influence of image preprocessing algorithms on classification performance remains insufficiently investigated in the literature. This research aims to evaluate the impact of image preprocessing algorithms on the performance of CNNs for Pap smear image classification. Methods: Three CNN architectures (ResNet-34, MobileNet-V2, and DenseNet-121) were trained and evaluated using the SIPaKMeD dataset. Two preprocessing algorithms were applied: the PMD filter for noise reduction and CLAHE for contrast enhancement. The model performance was assessed using a confusion matrix. Results: Preprocessing improved the classification performance of all models. CLAHE significantly increased the accuracy of ResNet-34 from 76.73% to 84.16% and DenseNet-121 from 76.73% to 84.16%. The PMD filter yielded limited improvement and slightly reduced the MobileNet-V2 performance. Novelty: This research provides a systematic comparison of contrast enhancement and noise reduction techniques across CNN architectures. This research demonstrates that contrast enhancement is more effective than noise reduction in improving CNN performance. The research provides new pipelines for improving cervical cancer classification. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11086 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2610.11086v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11086 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.15294/sji.v13i3.48099 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Ach Khozaimi [view email] [v1] Thu, 8 Oct 2026 01:57:18 UTC (774 KB)
[CV-156] No Distillation Needed: Single-Pass Real-Time Talking Heads via Acausal Noise Shaping
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11070
作者: Yu Han,Dejan Markovic,Alexander Richard,Wojciech Zielonka,Akshay Venkatesh,Cheng-hsin Wuu,Michael Zollhoefer
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Audio-driven facial animation underpins real-time avatars, telepresence, and embodied virtual agents. And it must run online: each frame emitted from audio observed up to the current time, at interactive rates. Recent progress is dominated by diffusion models, which need many network evaluations per sample and are therefore a poor fit for streaming. We argue the cost is unnecessary in this domain. Audio-conditioned facial motion occupies a comparatively low-dimensional manifold, a regime where a single-pass GAN suffices. The obstacle is not capacity but stochastic structure. We show that a causal, time-invariant generator driven by i.i.d. noise cannot suppress its output spectrum over a band without collapsing its per-step innovation. We proposed FaceGAN, which dissolved the limitation by shaping the noise pathway acausally. Because the driving noise is synthetic, its future can be sampled now, so the audio-to-expression path stays causal, and the model supports fully causal operation. FaceGAN emits expression and head pose in a single forward pass per frame and matches or outperforms state-of-art approaches in generation quality. Being feed-forward with bounded attention windows, it generates indefinitely without drift.
[CV-157] Diffusion Meta-Prompting and Steering for Generalizable Foundation Model Adaptation NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11067
作者: Deepak Sridhar,Yi Li,Kartikeya Bhardwaj,Shuangjun Liu,Taotao Jing,Yuan Li,Shuai Zhang,Jiancheng Lyu,Dashan Gao,Nuno Vasconcelos
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted to NeurIPS 2026. Project page: this https URL . Code: this https URL
Abstract:Prompt learning is a popular method for adapting foundation models, but learned prompts are typically task-specific and fail to generalize to new classes, domains, or compositions of tasks. In this paper, we introduce a Diffusion Meta-Prompt (DMP) model , a framework that models the distribution of learned prompts using diffusion models. Given a repository of previously learned prompts, DMP is trained and sampled without access to the original task examples or task losses, and synthesizes new prompts conditioned on natural language task descriptions. To improve the sampling stability, we introduce a test-time steering strategy for DMP, which uses the best training-selected prompt in the repository as a latent anchor during diffusion sampling, without retraining the DMP or accessing test classes. DMP improves generalization across classification, retrieval and text-to-image generation tasks, supports concept composition and negative prompting without explicit training. It reduces storage and inference costs by over 90% compared to prompt retrieval methods. For composite classification, DMP achieves upto 2.0% average gain over prior meta-learning methods across 55 pairs of datasets with gains as high as 8.5% on specific pairs such as Eurosat and Flowers. DMP also enhances cross-task generalization with ~2-9% improvement for hierarchical classification task. We further provide a theoretical guarantee bounding the expected task loss of prompts sampled from a DMP. Code is available: this https URL
[CV-158] AffordDrive3D: Affordance-Aware World-Action Modeling with Spatial Understanding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11060
作者: Tianhui Cai,Xinglong Sun,Chao Fang,Zhenxin Li,Rui Song,Jose M. Alvarez,Yunxiang Mao,Jiaqi Ma,Langechuan Liu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:World-action models have recently improved autonomous driving by jointly learning future scene prediction and trajectory generation. Most existing approaches model the future primarily through RGB appearance, and recent works have begun to incorporate geometric prediction to improve spatial understanding. However, dense geometry describes the spatial layout of the entire scene without indicating which parts are most relevant to the ego vehicle’s action. For driving, the model must also identify and anticipate where it can safely move and which regions may pose collision risks. Jointly modeling action-relevant regions and future geometry can provide the policy with both driving-relevant cues and their corresponding spatial structure. We therefore propose AffordDrive3D, an affordance- and geometry-aware world-action model that jointly learns future action-relevant regions and spatial structure. In order to capture the scene semantics and driving context needed for driving affordance prediction, we build AffordDrive3D on a VLM backbone to forecast drivable areas and collision-critical regions that directly affect ego motion, while predicting future geometry from RGB world-model latents. On NAVSIM, AffordDrive3D achieves state-of-the-art performance with 91.3 PDMS and 89.9 EPDMS, demonstrating the effectiveness of jointly modeling future affordances and geometry for trajectory planning.
[CV-159] Refine Connections Close the Gap: A Reliable Enhancement Framework for Driving Scene Topology
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11058
作者: Xiaoqi Wang,Dingyi Zhaung,David Paz,Wenbin He,Yucai Bai,Peng Zhou,Rui Zhang,Jinhua Zhao,Liu Ren
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:In autonomous driving, understanding scene topology - the connectivity between lanes and traffic elements - is critical for safe path planning and motion control. While current methods excel at detecting individual map elements, their connectivity reasoning often falls short of its theoretical potential, leaving a significant performance gap relative to the theoretical upper-bound achievable given the underlying detections. Furthermore, the decision-ready topology graphs passed to downstream tasks often remain unreliable. Current approaches typically derive connectivity by thresholding continuous topology scores; however, these scores often fail to reflect the true logical likelihood of connectivity, resulting in false positives or missing connections. Existing benchmarks further overlook this issue by primarily evaluating continuous metrics, rather than assessing the discrete connectivity required for decision-making. To bridge these gaps, we propose TopoEnhance, a novel topology enhancement framework designed to unlock the latent potential of existing methods and improve the reliability of decision-ready topology. We formulate topology enhancement as a denoising-based reconstruction process, where the model learns to recover structural consistency from stochastically corrupted ground-truth graphs. This formulation enables the model to resolve logical inconsistencies and rectify unreliable connections, producing robust discrete topology graphs that closely approach theoretical maximum performance. Extensive experiments across different baselines show that TopoEnhance consistently improves both continuous topology metrics (TOP score), and discrete connectivity measured by our adapted Topology Jaccard Similarity (TJS) metric. As a flexible, source-agnostic framework, TopoEnhance delivers substantial gains across diverse state-of-the-art baselines without requiring retraining.
[CV-160] Learning What to Trust in Multimodal Learning under Noisy Supervision
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11057
作者: Jiashuo Zou,Xiaobo Xia
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Multimodal classification processes and relates information from multiple modalities to achieve more accurate predictions. However, existing methods typically rely on high-quality ground-truth labels, which are difficult to obtain in real-world scenarios. While sample-selection methods for learning with noisy labels aim to identify correctly labeled examples from noisy data, traditional methods primarily focus on unimodal settings and fail to exploit multimodal information fully. This motivates us to build a more reliable noise detector in multimodal learning. To this end, we theoretically analyze the relationship between representation structure and noise detection capability. Based on this analysis, we propose REFINE, which is a multimodal label-noise detection framework that jointly uses fused and unimodal representations for label-noise detection. Specifically, REFINE constructs discriminative eigenvectors through discriminative analysis of the target and background classes and selects trusted representation spaces with better noise detection capability for each class. Within each trusted space, REFINE measures the alignment between each instance representation and the discriminative eigenvectors. It then combines the subsets selected from these spaces. The combined set provides cleaner supervision for updating the multimodal classifier, thereby reducing the influence of mislabeled examples during training and improving model generalization. Extensive experiments across diverse tasks demonstrate REFINE’s superiority compared to baseline methods. The source code will be publicly available.
[CV-161] SatFix: Absolute Visual Localization of UAVs in Satellite Maps from a Single Oblique Image
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11049
作者: Jiarui Zeng,Kun Shi,Chiman Vong,Zhedong Zheng
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We study absolute metric UAV localization within a provided geo-referenced satellite region, recovering continuous map position and viewing heading from a single oblique image or a short multi-view clip. Existing cross-view geo-localization methods retrieve the most similar satellite tile from a gallery and report Recall@K, but retrieval depends on gallery sampling, provides no heading estimate, and returns a tile index rather than a continuous coordinate. We propose SatFix, a feed-forward UAV–satellite localization framework built on VGGT- \Omega . Satellite-grid features act as queries that aggregate UAV visual evidence, and two lightweight heads regress a 3-DoF pose in the satellite-map frame: continuous 2D position and heading. SatFix requires no explicit 3D map, rendered bird’s-eye image, auxiliary sensor, or test-time pose alignment. A single model supports both single- and multi-view inputs, with trajectory constraints used during multi-view training. For metric evaluation, we introduce University-Metric, where satellite imagery is re-collected over a region up to 10.7 \times longer on a side (about 114 \times the ground area) than the original University-1652 tiles, with continuous position and heading labels for the original UAV tours. With one UAV view, SatFix localizes 52.08% of test frames within 50 m and 17.34% within 10 m, with median position and heading errors of 45.66 m and 20.81^\circ , respectively. Inference takes under 0.1 s per single-view query on an NVIDIA RTX 4090. With nine UAV views, the median position error falls to 21.96 m and the median heading error to 8.73^\circ . Compared with a fine-tuned VGGT- \Omega baseline, SatFix reduces median position error by 34.0% and nine-view median heading error from 25.43^\circ to 8.73^\circ .
[CV-162] Rendering-Free Lookahead for Question-Guided Active Vision
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11039
作者: Koya Sakamoto,Daichi Azuma,Shuhei Kurita,Naoya Chiba,Yusuke Iwasawa,Yutaka Matsuo,Taiki Miyanishi
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Active robot vision requires controlling the camera to reveal task-relevant information that is hidden from the current viewpoint. For example, determining what is inside a box may require raising the camera and looking down into it. For viewpoint-dependent question answering, the challenge is to select camera motions that expose the visual evidence needed to answer the question. Although vision-language models (VLMs) can interpret observed images, selecting such motions requires anticipating the usefulness of unseen views. We quantify this usefulness as answerability, a VLM’s estimate that a view suffices to answer the question, and present Rendering-Free Lookahead (RFL), a viewpoint-selection policy that ranks candidate camera motions by predicted future answerability. RFL transfers visual lookahead from deployment to offline training. At training, a privileged teacher renders candidate future views in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes and uses a frozen VLM to compute one- and two-step answerability targets. Through two-stage distillation, a student learns to predict these action values from the question, recent visual observations, and a candidate camera motion. At deployment, RFL uses these predicted values to select camera motions without rendering future views. On 377 E3VS-Bench test episodes in unseen environments, RFL improves the mean judge score by 43% over a direct-action baseline using the same VLM. These results support learning camera-control policies from privileged visual lookahead for viewpoint-dependent question answering.
[CV-163] ransforming Image Editors into Video Editors NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11037
作者: Feng Wang,Zijie Li,Ceyuan Yang,Alan Yuille,Peng Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: In NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Recent image editing systems have achieved impressive semantic understanding, visual fidelity, and instruction-following ability, while video editing remains substantially more difficult and costly. In this paper, we present a simple alternative to end-to-end video editing: instead of training a monolithic video editor, we transform a strong image editor into a video editor through anchor-based generation. Our key insight is that video editing can be decomposed into two subproblems: editing a sparse set of keyframes and propagating those edits across time. Based on this observation, we propose Anchor-based Video Editing (AVE), a two-stage framework in which a powerful image editor first performs composed editing on selected keyframes, and a motion-guided image-to-video diffusion model then generates the final video by treating the edited keyframes as fixed anchors. This design directly inherits the strengths of modern image editors while avoiding expensive end-to-end video editing training. Experiments on IVEBench and VIE-Bench show that AVE achieves strong performance in instruction following, temporal consistency, and content fidelity. Further ablations reveal that final video editing quality is strongly correlated with the quality of the image editor, suggesting that future progress in video editing may come from stronger image editing foundations and lightweight transfer to video. Code is available at this https URL.
[CV-164] Expression-Diverse References for Identity-Preserving Video Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11023
作者: Tianwen Fu,Wenbin Teng,Gonglin Chen,Junyi Ouyang,Haolin Xiong,Yajie Zhao
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 9 pages, 8 figures
Abstract:Identity-preserving video generation aims to maintain a subject’s identity while synthesizing realistic videos. Yet a single reference portrait captures the subject’s appearance under only one facial configuration. As expressions change, facial appearance can vary in highly identity-specific ways, leaving the subject’s appearance under unseen expressions underdetermined by the reference alone. This expression-dependent variation also complicates evaluation: similarity to a neutral reference may decrease under strong expressions even for real images of the same person. We investigate this limitation from both generation and evaluation perspectives. First, we quantify how face-recognition similarity varies with expression intensity using controlled photographs and MEAD videos. We then construct a compact yet expressive reference gallery that captures diverse expression-dependent facial configurations. Matching against this gallery provides a more robust measure of identity similarity under expressive motion. To further expose performance degradation with expression intensity, we report identity similarity separately for mild, intense, and extreme expressions. For generation, we extend Stand-In to condition on our expression-diverse reference sets and develop a data-curation pipeline that extracts consistent yet diverse face crops from training videos. In practical settings where only a single portrait is available, we construct the reference set by synthesizing additional expressions with a pretrained facial reenactment model. On our controlled benchmark, both real and synthesized reference sets outperform the evaluated baselines in identity similarity across all three expression-intensity regimes, with the largest improvements for extreme expressions.
[CV-165] Mid-Training Language Models on Raw Video
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11019
作者: Jaedong Hwang,Xiaoqian Shen,Ernie Chang,Changsheng Zhao,Chong Zhou,Saksham Suri,Qi Qian,Zechun Liu,Lemeng Wu,Qinsi Wang,Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi,Wei Wen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Multimodal large language models learn mostly from paired image-text data or annotated video, and raw web video is rarely used to further train an existing language model. We study whether raw video, with no captions and no text loss, can serve as mid-training data for a pretrained language model. Frames are encoded into continuous visual tokens, and the language model learns to predict the next visual token. We mid-train Qwen3-1.7B on raw clips from YT-Temporal-1B and then apply the same image-text instruction tuning to it and to the model without mid-training, so that the two differ only in mid-training. The mid-trained model scores 2.9 points higher on average across four video benchmarks and 5.1 points higher across ten image benchmarks, spanning perception, document, and chart tasks. Text performance is preserved even though mid-training includes no text, with an average of 48.9 across 14 text benchmarks compared with 48.0 for the model without mid-training. Analyses across training show that the image and video gains emerge within 30% of training and plateau thereafter, varying by less than 0.5 points. Predicting captions fails to outperform next-visual-token prediction, demonstrating that video mid-training can remain purely self-supervised without the computational overhead or labeling noise of automated captioning.
[CV-166] PCAsplat: Gaussian Splatting with Local PCA Regularization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11011
作者: Vitor Matias,Filipe Nascimento,Kiyohiro Nakayama,João Paulo Lima,Márcus Lobo,Gordon Wetzstein,Leonidas Guibas,Afonso Paiva,Tiago Novello
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:Gaussian splatting has emerged as a flexible representation for 3D reconstruction from posed images. However, existing methods are optimized primarily using rasterization-based losses, which supervise a splat only when it contributes to sampled camera rays. Gaussians that are occluded or contribute little to the sampled view therefore receive weak or no geometric gradients and may drift away from the underlying surface, producing undesired floaters. We introduce PCAsplat, a geometry-aware regularization framework for Gaussian splatting based on differentiable local principal component analysis (PCA). Our PCA regularizer acts directly on neighborhoods of Gaussian centers and can therefore update Gaussians that do not contribute to the current training view. We regularize the PCA eigenvalues to encourage Gaussians to move to the underlying surface with isotropic tangent-plane coverage. We also align each Gaussian normal with the PCA-estimated neighborhood normal to enforce consistent orientation. Experiments on DTU, Tanks and Temples, and NeRF Synthetic show that the splats produced by PCAsplat better approximate samples of the reference surface while substantially reducing undesired floaters. These surface-aligned splats enable downstream geometry-processing tasks, including point cloud segmentation, and direct Poisson reconstruction. Additionally, PCAsplat remains competitive under conventional novel view synthesis and mesh extraction tasks. Code will be released.
[CV-167] Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10991
作者: Ian de Holanda Cavalcanti Bezerra,Vivek Trivedy,Lucas Pascotti Valem,Longin Jan Latecki
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Image retrieval methods often rely on a single global semantic descriptor extracted from an image, e.g., the [CLS] token in vision transformers. However, trying to squeeze all the semantic information of an image into a single descriptor can hurt downstream retrieval performance, especially for fine-grained retrieval tasks. In this work, we augment the semantic tokens in the newer visual transformers, the global [CLS] token and the four register tokens, with a carefully selected collection of spatial tokens, aiming to capture the spatial region representation that characterizes the contents captured in each of the semantic tokens. We leverage the DINOv2-reg model, which includes register tokens that emergently learn object and part-based representations. For each “cue” token ([CLS] and each register token), we find a “buddy” image patch token and extract an N x N patch region to produce a set of localized ROI tokens. Our approach automatically captures important regions of interest without any external bounding boxes or saliency modules, purely by matching semantic tokens with their spatial representation regions. Furthermore, we incorporate these tokens into a multi-vector retrieval framework inspired by ColBERT, enabling fine-grained matching via a per-token alignment mechanism while avoiding the large storage cost of keeping all patch embeddings. Through extensive experiments, we find that (1) register tokens encode useful fine-grained details that can complement the [CLS] token; (2) automatically pooled ROI tokens further improve fine-grained discrimination; and (3) multi-vector retrieval with a small set of tokens improves over a DINOv2-reg single-vector baseline while remaining tractable for large-scale search. The code is available at this https URL.
[CV-168] Omni-Diffusion-Distill: Few-Step Distillation of Unified Multimodal Diffusion Large Language Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10990
作者: Hong Huang,Chenhongyi Yang,Junzhe Sun,Animesh Sinha,Wuyang Chen,Yifan Jiang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Unified multimodal diffusion large language models (dLLMs) offer a single architecture for both image generation and multimodal understanding, but their iterative decoding requires tens to hundreds of forward passes. Existing few-step distillation methods largely focus on either image generation or text generation, making it unclear how to compress a fully discrete multimodal dLLM into a single efficient student while preserving both generation and understanding. We introduce Omni-Diffusion-Distill, a unified two-stage distillation framework that retains strong generation and understanding capabilities while substantially reducing the inference cost of a unified multimodal dLLM. Omni-Diffusion-Distill aligns the distillation of both generation and understanding, for both images and text, in the discrete token space. In the first stage, the student is trained to skip decoding steps by replaying cached teacher trajectories, and in the second stage the student is refined on intermediate states along its own rollouts. We further remedy two sources of degradation in unified distillation with a pairwise collision penalty that reduces repetition under parallel text decoding, and entropy-matched guidance that prevents entropy collapse caused by fitting the sharpened teacher distribution in image generation. Omni-Diffusion-Distill achieves state-of-the-art trade-offs between decoding efficiency and generation and understanding performance for multimodal dLLMs, reducing image generation from 128 to 8 decoding steps and multimodal understanding from 512 to 64, giving 18.2x and 21.2x wall-clock speedups. Under these budgets, it scores 0.828 on GenEval and 83.0 on DPG-Bench for text-to-image generation, while reaching GPT judge scores of 20.0 on MM-Vet and 57.2 on COCO captioning (twice the teacher’s 28.4 at the same steps) for multimodal understanding.
[CV-169] Multi-Bandwidth Distribution Matching Distillation: On the Equivalence of Distribution Matching Distillation and Drifting Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10989
作者: Jialin Zhu,Xing Liu,Feixiang He,He Wang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Researchers are exploring effective one-step generative model continuously, and, Drifting Models (Deng et al., 2026), demonstrate great potential in one-step generation recently. There are works that reveal the connection between Diffusion Flow Style Generative Models (DFSGMs) (Ho et al., 2020; Song et al., 2020a;b; Lipman et al., 2022; Liu et al., 2022) and Drifting Models (Li Zhu, 2026; Lai et al., 2026; Turan et al., 2026). But no one has yet established a precise correspondence between the Drifting Model and the widely used distillation method- Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD/DMD2) (Yin et al., 2024b;a) to the best of our knowledge, even though their optimization objective formulas are virtually identical. In this paper, we prove that by converting the velocity-field / noise-field from the pre-trained DFSGMs into the attraction force field in Drifting Models and estimating the repulsion force field from the generative distribution, training the Drifting Model is naturally equivalent to the Distribution Matching Distillation. With this equivalent concept, we propose an improved method based on DMD from the Drifting Model’s perspective- Multi-Bandwidth Distribution Matching Distillation (MBDMD).
[CV-170] Fluid-Gen-Zero: Grounding Pretrained Video Generators in Physics without Training
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10984
作者: Hong Huang,Yuqiu Liu,Chenyu You,Daniel Martin,Chuhang Zou,Wuyang Chen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:We present Fluid-Gen-Zero, a training-free framework for physics-aware fluid-object interaction video generation that decouples physical reasoning from appearance synthesis. Our key insight is to delegate motion dynamics to a physics simulator while preserving the appearance modeling capacity of pretrained video generators. We bridge these two domains through a two-level agentic workflow: generation-time planning, where a vision-language model (VLM) agent interprets intent and the simulation rollout to organize generation clips, and latent-space guidance, which injects simulation signals into denoising through region-aware latent wrapping. This plug-and-play design is compatible with current video foundation models. We further introduce a benchmark for fluid-object interaction video generation. Across Tora (CogVideoX-based), VACE and WanMove (Wan-based), Fluid-Gen-Zero consistently improves simulation alignment, reducing object trajectory error by 26.7%-81.5% and fluid fEPE (fluid flow endpoint error) by 67.9%-84.0%, while largely preserving perceptual quality. In a human preference study, raters favor Fluid-Gen-Zero in 55.1%-74.4% of same-backbone comparisons across three backbones, and in 90.4%-94.2% of comparisons against simulation-based methods. Code and data will be released upon acceptance.
[CV-171] LVSPM: Long Sequence View Synthesis and Pose Estimation Model ECCV2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10960
作者: Xi Chen,Yachi Zhang,Linghao Chen,Minghua Liu,Hao Su,Zexiang Xu,Xiaoshuai Zhang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We present LVSPM, a generalizable model that jointly estimates camera poses and synthesizes novel views from uncalibrated image collections. Trained with only RGB images and pose supervision, LVSPM avoids dense 3D ground truth and employs test-time training (TTT) layers to scale seamlessly to hundreds of input views. On RealEstate10k, Co3Dv2, and DL3DV, LVSPM surpasses VGGT in pose estimation across 16-256 views, with especially large margins at strict thresholds. For novel view synthesis under a practical protocol where more views cover larger scenes, LVSPM achieves state-of-the-art pose-free quality—surpassing even pose-dependent models in PSNR—and still maintains high quality as scene scale grows, while baselines collapse. The code is available at this https URL .
[CV-172] GPU-Accelerated Computation of Persistent Homology for Topological Analysis of Image Data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10959
作者: Fan Wang,Hubert Wagner,Rezaul Chowdhury,Chao Chen
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). Includes supplementary material (8 pages) after the main paper. Code: this https URL
Abstract:In recent years, persistent homology has seen rapid adoption in deep learning, yet its computation remains a major bottleneck in network training. This paper introduces TopoGPU, a GPU streaming pipeline that computes persistence diagrams of cubical complexes induced by 2D and 3D images. TopoGPU streams the input image chunk by chunk, processing each chunk with massively parallel GPU kernels on a grid of GPU blocks; the resulting boundary relations are accumulated in host memory, where the CPU performs the boundary matrix reduction. TopoGPU introduces a stratification-aware discrete Morse matching that provably preserves persistent homology under streaming, together with a parallel topological sorting algorithm and a parallel V-path parity algorithm for deriving Morse boundaries on the GPU. TopoGPU outperforms Cubical Ripser, a state-of-the-art method for persistent homology computation, on every benchmark evaluated, achieving an average end-to-end speedup of 53.24x and a maximum of 198.01x. We further integrate TopoGPU into a topology-preserving deep network, demonstrating that it substantially reduces the cost of persistent homology computation during network training. TopoGPU is open source, with pre-built binaries, Google Colab notebooks, and Docker images available at the project’s GitHub page: this https URL.
[CV-173] GHARP: Real-time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-scale Reconstruction Prior ACCV2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10945
作者: Ali Benlalah,Sepehr Johari,Patricia Vitoria,Armin Kappeler,Artem Sevastopolsky,Alexander Jung,Gabriele Fanelli,Kevin Mader,Manuel Breitenstein,Claudia Plüss,Jan Rüegg,Simon Biland,Thomas Etterlin,Dmitry Kostiaev,Mathias Deschler,Brian Amberg,Sebastian Martin
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted to ACCV 2026. 35 pages (14 main + references + 15 pages supplementary), 14 figures, 17 tables
Abstract:We present GHARP (Real-time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-scale Reconstruction Prior), a method that animates 3D human heads in real time from a few input images of a subject and a driving expression signal. We decouple the problem into an identity stage that builds a representation of the subject’s geometry and appearance offline, and an animation stage that predicts expression-dependent residuals on top of it at runtime. This separation offers a favorable trade-off with respect to fidelity, quality and runtime: the identity stage can be expensive while the animation stage runs a lightweight network, optimized for mobile devices. Our method performs animation in a semantically structured latent space of a pretrained reconstruction model, where expression changes remain spatially contained, making residual prediction efficient. This reconstruction prior provides a consistent spatial layout, allowing fusion of multiple input views into a compact, fixed-size canonical Gaussian representation. While this two-stage design improves the runtime-quality trade-off, it still inherits a problem common to all expression-driven avatar methods: expression codes describe only the face and thus omit body pose and clothing position, making these regions underspecified in the input. The animation network faces an ill-posed mapping and resorts to averaging over conflicting body appearances, producing blur and temporal flicker. We address this with a body alignment network that learns to align the person’s body in the target image with the input reference images, removing the ambiguity from the training signal. Our method achieves state-of-the-art quality on the Ava-256 benchmark while running up to 13x faster on an A100 GPU with 8x fewer Gaussians.
[CV-174] When Listening Becomes Easier: Scrubbing Visual Cues for Shortcut-Free VLAs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10912
作者: Jasper Gerigk,Kenzo Aspuru-Takata,Chin-Hsuan Wu,Mohammad Mohammadi,Shuhong Zheng,Igor Gilitschenski
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Shortcut learning is a prevalent issue in robot learning. The limited diversity of robot demonstration datasets can mislead policies into exploiting spurious correlations between tasks and irrelevant features, such as viewpoint or background. Collecting sufficiently diverse robot demonstrations is costly and inefficient, motivating algorithmic alternatives. We focus on vision-language-action (VLA) models and discover that different vision-language model backbones exhibit substantially different levels of susceptibility to visual shortcut learning. We find that model behavior correlates with our proposed representation-level metric, action margin, which requires no policy rollouts. Visual shortcuts consistently enter action representations in early layers, with models differing in the extent to which later layers correct them by incorporating language information. To boost models’ attention to language, we introduce task scrubbing, a new domain-adversarial training method that decreases models’ likelihood of using visual shortcuts and improves VLAs’ generalization. Experiments in both simulation and the real world across multiple VLAs and visual cues show that task scrubbing improves out-of-distribution robustness and often eliminates visual shortcut learning.
[CV-175] Less from More: Reinforcing Sparse Video Reasoning from Dense References
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10893
作者: Wenfang Sun,Yingjun Du,Cees G. M. Snoek
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Video-language models commonly assume that more temporal observations lead to more reliable reasoning. We question this assumption and argue that the key challenge is not merely processing more video frames efficiently, but learning to reason reliably under limited temporal evidence. We propose SAVER, a dense-to-sparse post-training framework that uses dense video views as training-time references for sparse-frame inference. During reinforcement post-training, paired dense and sparse views are optimized with grounding rewards and a reliability-gated reference reward, encouraging sparse view predictions to preserve task-relevant temporal evidence. Notably, SAVER is trained only on 1,250 randomly sampled temporal grounding examples, without using any video question answering annotations. Across three temporal grounding benchmarks and six video question-answering benchmarks, SAVER consistently improves performance across frame budgets. In particular, SAVER can match or surpass dense-frame Qwen3.5 baselines while using substantially fewer frames. These results show that temporal grounding can serve as an effective evidence-localization proxy for learning sparse video reasoning that transfers to broader video understanding tasks.
[CV-176] SPLIT-RL: Staged Perception-Language Reasoning Training with Claim-Level Advantages
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10889
作者: Raja Kumar,Rajat Koner,Ritwick Chaudhry,Zhuowei Li,Nishant Sankaran,Yifan Xing
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Vision-Language (VL) reasoning requires a model to both extract relevant and accurate information from an image (visual reasoning, VR), and to infer the answer from it (language reasoning, LR). Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards typically trains both through a single chain-of-thought with a final-answer reward. This gives every CoT token the same sequence-level advantage, failing to distinguish capability specific errors. We propose SPLIT-RL, a staged post-training approach that trains VR and LR in disjoint phases. Because a group’s rollouts differ along one capability at a time, the group-relative advantage isolates it, and each phase is optimized using phase-specific reward. We further introduce Claim-Level Advantage (CLA-GRPO), which decomposes VR-phase rollouts into atomic visual claims and provides a fine-grained advantage at claim level based on visual-type group formation. Although trained in two phases, trained policy is evaluated like GRPO model, with a single CoT call at inference time. Under this protocol, SPLIT-RL improves average accuracy over GRPO by 1.4-6.1 points across Qwen3-VL models from 2B to 30B-A3B and InternVL3.5-8B. Evaluating each capability using an oracle based diagnostic shows that answer-only GRPO leaves perception unchanged, whereas SPLIT-RL improves both VR and LR.
[CV-177] Enabling Preference-driven Unlearning in Few-step Distilled Text-to-Image Diffusion Models NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10859
作者: Gaurav Patel,Jun Fang,Greg Ver Steeg,Qiang Qiu,Sravan Sripada
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly distilled into few-step variants and being deployed to enable fast inference. However, their ability to generate harmful or undesired content poses significant safety risks. Data-driven unlearning methods suppress targeted generations by fine-tuning model weights using specialized unlearning objectives. Crucially, these objectives implicitly rely on multi-step denoising dynamics, an assumption that breaks down for few-step distilled (FSD) models, resulting in ineffective forgetting. Furthermore, performing unlearning on the non-distilled base model and subsequently re-distilling it to obtain an unlearned FSD model incurs substantial computational and time overhead, making it impractical in many settings. Hence, we address this limitation with a preference-driven unlearning framework that revisits Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) for diffusion models. We show that standard DPO and its unlearning derivatives, formulated around noise-prediction error, transfer poorly to FSD models due to their altered generation dynamics. To overcome this, we introduce a modified preference optimization formulation explicitly aligned with the few-step generation properties, enabling direct concept removal in FSD models while preserving few-step efficiency and maintaining strong retention of desirable (non-targeted) capabilities. We evaluate our framework primarily on identity and NSFW (nudity) removal tasks and also extend our method to object-level unlearning. Extensive experiments demonstrate consistent and effective forgetting, and strong retention performance, establishing our method as a practical and principled solution for unlearning in FSD models.
[CV-178] Velocity Scaling in Flow Matching
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10823
作者: Youssef Saied,François Fleuret
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Scaling a learned flow-matching velocity field v_\theta by a gain \gamma(t) was recently shown to greatly improve generation quality. Prior work argued that velocity fields trained with mean-squared error (MSE) systematically underestimate velocity magnitude and that scaling corrects this error. We show that MSE training does not create a velocity-magnitude deficit. We find instead that velocity scaling reduces population time lag: sampled states at model time t resemble training states from an earlier time. Velocity scaling and moving model time back are two ways to address this population time lag. Across architectures and model sizes, measuring population time lag and using it to select a gain greatly improves generation quality, reducing FID from 28.0 to 12.2 (estimated by linear interpolation between FID measurements at neighboring gains) on ImageNet-256 at NFE 25 without guidance.
[CV-179] VICO: Visual Environments Co-Evolving for Vision-Language Model Reasoning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10782
作者: Meng Lu,Ligeng Zhu,Olivia Xiao,Yuchen Zhuang,Zihan Wang,Kuncheng Wu,Bangya Liu,Yu Wang,Charles Fleming,Wenqi Shi,Xuan Wang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard recipe for post-training vision-language models (VLMs), but it typically assumes a static training environment. As the actor improves, fixed tasks drift out of its learning frontier: many become trivial, others remain unsolvable; and the learning signal collapses. We argue that VLM post-training should evolve the visual environment alongside the actor, not just the actor itself. We propose VICO, a co-evolutionary framework in which an actor and an Environment-as-Rewriter (EnvRewriter) are trained jointly: the EnvRewriter edits verifiable image-side structures, such as scene graphs, chart tables, or protected region masks, and re-renders them to produce label-valid training samples whose difficulty is calibrated to the actor’s current ability through a pass-rate-based reward. This loop continuously realigns task difficulty with actor capability without any additional human annotation. Across nine multimodal benchmarks spanning mathematical reasoning and visually grounded understanding, VICO-8B improves over its base model by up to +5.0% on out-of-domain tasks, surpasses the strongest self-evolution and text-editing co-evolution baselines by +4.3% and +8.4% respectively, and stays comparable to chart-specialized RLVR methods using 16-160 times fewer labeled samples. By shifting from human-labeled supervision to image-editing co-evolution, VICO offers a scalable path beyond static-corpus RLVR for visual reasoning. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10782 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2610.10782v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10782 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Meng Lu [view email] [v1] Wed, 7 Oct 2026 18:39:32 UTC (22,719 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled VICO: Visual Environments Co-Evolving for Vision-Language Model Reasoning, by Meng Lu and 10 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.CV prev | next new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References Citations NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation loading… Data provided by: Bookmark checked="checked"class=“labs-tab-input”> Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv’s community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?) mathjaxToggle(); We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders, member institutions, , and all contributors. About Help Contact Subscribe Copyright Privacy Accessibility Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from
[CV-180] DOGS: Design-Space Sampling for Prompt-Driven Logo Generation BMVC2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10760
作者: Ganyu Zou,Chen Dai,Nathan Self,Kevin Piper,Ramachandra Rao Seethiraju,Karthik Shyamsunder,Chang-Tien Lu,Naren Ramakrishnan
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Prompt optimization for text-to-image (T2I) generation has been pursued almost entirely as text rewriting, in which a short user brief is expanded into a longer, model-preferred token sequence. We argue that such a language-space formulation is ill-suited to structured visual design tasks such as logo creation, where a one-line brief leaves most design decisions unspecified. These decisions depend on relational priors that a linear sequence cannot encode, and they leave an uncontrolled channel through which protected marks may be reproduced. We therefore recast logo prompting as sampling within a structured design space, and instantiate this idea as DOGS (Design-space prompting with an Originality-aware GFlowNet Sampler). From a large corpus of real-world logos, we mine a typed, graph-structured design grammar whose edges record empirical co-occurrence. A GFlowNet sampler then generates design graphs with probability proportional to a terminal reward that combines recognizability, aesthetics, and corpus-relative originality. Every slot draws only from a closed design-level vocabulary, and any infringement-inducing or harmful token is removed during parsing. The originality reward further penalizes proximity to existing logos, thereby incorporating infringement avoidance into the method by construction. On two open-source renderers and against nine baselines, DOGS produces logos that are more recognizable and aesthetic, substantially more diverse, and far less prone to trademark infringement.
[CV-181] MESSENGER: Memory-Enhanced Sequential Scene Flow Estimation via Autoregressive Next-Frame Forecasting NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10759
作者: Jiuming Liu,Jianing Li,Mengmeng Liu,Hongyang He,Hesheng Wang,Per Ola Kristensson
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted by NeurIPS 2026. Code will be released at: this https URL
Abstract:Scene flow can capture low-level 3D motion displacements in dynamic scenarios. Early pairwise estimators relying on instantaneous two-frame motion lack long-term temporal correlation and also struggle with poor extrapolation ability in future prediction. Although some recent methods attempt to explore multi-frame scene flow estimation in a sequence-to-sequence manner, they typically suffer from heavy computational overhead with increasing input frames and long-horizon prediction degradation due to ineffective motion propagation. To address these problems, we propose a novel memory-enhanced sequential scene flow pipeline, called MESSENGER. To sufficiently mine long-term temporal dependencies naturally within consecutive sequences, a memory buffer is designed by explicitly storing multiple history flow estimates and latent states. For each input frame, the temporally stored flows and states are correlated and retrieved to predict the current initialized flow in a next-frame forecasting manner. Furthermore, we develop an uncertainty-aware reweighting module to filter unreliable retrievals and mitigate accumulated errors. Extensive experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 demonstrate state-of-the-art performance of our MESSENGER, reducing EPE3D by 71.6% on nuScenes and 67.7% on Argoverse 2 in long-horizon future extrapolation. This superiority can be attributed to our designed autoregressive forecasting paradigm, which naturally forces the network to progressively learn the next-frame distribution based on history observations. Code will be released at this https URL.
[CV-182] LinSlot: Exploiting Linear Representation hypothesis for unsupervised attribute discovery from slot based object representation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10722
作者: Sanket Gandhi,Utkarsh Giri,Varun Subramanium,Rohan Paul,Parag Singla
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:This paper studies the problem of learning disentangled representations of objects and their attributes from raw, unstructured image data. Slot-based methods have shown considerable success in unsupervised learning of object representations from images. Block-slot attention-based methods extend this framework to attribute representations by assuming a uniform factorization of object representations into attributes, which may be suboptimal and consequently limit the quality of the learned representations. We therefore investigate a framework for jointly discovering object and attribute representations. Our key contribution is leveraging the Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH), which postulates that composable concepts can be represented as linearly additive subspaces in slot representations. Based on this insight, we propose a probabilistic model connecting images, slots (objects), and blocks (attributes). We present an architecture that leverages block attention to connect attribute representations to slots and incorporates LRH in both object and attribute representation spaces. This architecture effectively optimizes the Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO) of the proposed graphical model. Our experiments demonstrate (i) effective discovery of disentangled object and attribute representations, (ii) empirical evidence for LRH in slot space, and (iii) the ability to perform image editing owing to the disentangled and interpretable nature of the learned representations. Our experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate improvements in DCI scores over state-of-the-art methods.
[CV-183] Seeing Through the Glare: A Multi-Source Benchmark and Ocular-Adaptive Pixel MeanFlow for Eyeglass Reflection Removal
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10703
作者: Tao Liu,Youwei Pang,Kailai Zhou,Jiaming Zuo,Hanqi Liu,Wei Ji,Peng-Tao Jiang,Xiaofeng Liu,Weisi Lin,Xiaoqi Zhao
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Eyeglass reflection removal is important across smartphone imaging, video conferencing, and other face-centric visual applications. The task is challenging because reflections range from mild photometric contamination to severe ocular occlusion, requiring selective correction and plausible reconstruction without altering identity or natural appearance. Existing datasets cover limited reflection conditions, constraining generalization to complex real-world scenes and systematic evaluation. We introduce \textbfOcuBench, a multi-source benchmark comprising 10,280 controllable synthetic pairs, 732 real-input pseudo-pairs, and 458 independent real-world test images, supporting both paired evaluation and assessment beyond generated supervision. We further propose \textbfOcuFlow, an ocular-adaptive pixel MeanFlow (pMF) framework for efficient, detail-preserving restoration. It combines geometry-adaptive representation with one-step pMF to focus reconstruction on reflection-obscured ocular regions, together with native-resolution frequency-preserving synthesis to retain reliable observed details. Experiments across diverse reflection conditions demonstrate that OcuFlow achieves consistent advantages in reflection removal quality, ocular fidelity, and efficiency. In a blind user study, it receives 67.32% of selections, 6.2\times the next-best share. Both the code and dataset will be released.
[CV-184] A Camera-Native Stereo VR180 Dataset
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10607
作者: Linxuan Lu
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Multimedia (cs.MM)
备注: 6 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables. Dataset: this https URL
Abstract:Immersive VR180 video is increasingly produced with professional stereo fisheye cameras, yet public VR180 research resources are mostly collected from online platforms such as YouTube: already stitched, projected and compressed by unknown pipelines, and without lens calibration. We present a firsthand-captured stereo VR180 dataset recorded with two Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive cameras. It contains 1,211 samples – 636 stereo video clips (2,220.8 s, mostly 90 fps) and 575 stereo stills – each released as camera-native Blackmagic RAW, separate-eye native fisheye HEVC (8160x7200 per eye) and half-equirectangular HEVC (7200x7200 per eye), together with the factory lens calibration, portable fisheye/half-equirectangular conversion tools and AI-generated scene and visual-challenge annotations. Re-encoding the released fisheye and half-equirectangular renders with x265 over 24 clips, both eyes, four rate points and nine viewing directions, native-fisheye coding needed more bitrate than half-equirectangular coding at equal viewport quality for all 24 clips (median +38%), in every part of the field of view. Data: this https URL ; code: this https URL
[CV-185] Does Dynamic-Point Filtering Help When Texture Is Scarce? A Controlled Study of ORB-SLAM2 Front-Ends in Synthetic Indoor Scenes IROS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10564
作者: Zekui Xue
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to IROS 2026. Open-source code and dataset available
Abstract:Dynamic-point filters are routinely added to feature-based visual SLAM, and several recent systems argue that removing dynamic features can leave too few static features in low-texture regions. So far, these systems have been evaluated only on texture-rich benchmark sequences. We present a controlled study that isolates this interaction. We render synthetic indoor sequences in which surface texture (four levels, quantified by FAST-corner density and image-gradient entropy) and scene dynamics (three levels) are varied factorially along identical camera trajectories, with stereo, RGB-D, ground-truth poses and dynamic masks. On this grid we compare ORB-SLAM2 without filtering, with an optical-flow and epipolar-residual filter (FLOW), and with a multi-view depth-consistency filter (GEOM), and report trajectory error, tracking completeness and surviving static features over five runs. Because the masks give per-keypoint ground truth, we also measure each filter’s dynamic-point precision and recall and its static-feature false-removal rate, so that mechanistic explanations can be tested directly. We do not propose a new filter. On 720 runs over 24 sequences, filtering helped mainly in the most dynamic cells; the benefit did not decline monotonically with texture, but at the lowest level filtering reduced tracking completeness, and ORB-SLAM2 never initialised in static L3 scenes. Contrary to our hypothesis, GEOM discarded more static keypoints than FLOW (median FRR 6.8% vs. 1.5% for RGB-D, 19.6% vs. 1.5% for stereo); its RGB-D advantage tracked dynamic-point recall and vanished in stereo mode. Data and code are available at this https URL.
[CV-186] SLVR: Structured Latent Visual Reasoning via Human-like Reasoning Flows NEURIPS
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10563
作者: Albert Gao,Bing Xue,Andrea Zanette
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often answer visual reasoning questions by relying on linguistic priors rather than task-relevant visual evidence. Textual chain-of-thought reasoning can partially mitigate this issue by encouraging models to decompose visual questions into intermediate evidence-seeking steps, but generating these steps autoregressively increases inference cost. Latent reasoning avoids explicit rationale generation, but existing approaches provide limited control over what intermediate states encode, making it difficult to impose separate supervision for planning, grounding, and evidence selection. We propose Structured Latent Visual Reasoning (SLVR), a training framework that bridges explicit chain-of-thought and latent reasoning by organizing multimodal reasoning into typed latent stages for planning, grounding, evidence selection, and reasoning integration. SLVR first trains the model to rely on the image by masking answer-revealing text and contrasting the correct answer with visually plausible distractors. It then organizes reasoning into latent stages for planning, grounding, evidence selection, and integration, supervising each stage with the corresponding signal: plans, boxes, visual evidence, and final rationales. This gives latent reasoning an explicit functional structure while avoiding generated textual chains at inference time. Built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B, SLVR improves consistently across multimodal reasoning benchmarks, with absolute gains of +9.4 on MMVP and +14.2 on BLINK Relation, as well as improvements on V*, MathVista, and ChartQA. These results suggest that structured latent supervision can improve fine-grained visual reasoning without the decoding overhead of textual CoT. Project page is available \hrefthis https URLhere. Comments: Accepted by NeurIPS this http URL page \hrefthis https URL Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10563 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2610.10563v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10563 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-187] Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning ICML2025
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20612
作者: Vicente Balmaseda,Bokun Wang,Ching-Long Lin,Tianbao Yang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
备注: Accepted to ICML 2025
Abstract:In self-supervised contrastive learning, negative pairs are typically constructed using an anchor image and a sample drawn from the entire dataset, excluding the anchor. However, this approach can result in the creation of negative pairs with similar semantics, referred to as “false negatives”, leading to their embeddings being falsely pushed apart. To address this issue, we introduce GloFND, an optimization-based approach that automatically learns on the fly the threshold for each anchor data to identify its false negatives during training. In contrast to previous methods for false negative discovery, our approach globally detects false negatives across the entire dataset rather than locally within the mini-batch. Moreover, its per-iteration computation cost remains independent of the dataset size. Experimental results on image and image-text data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Our implementation is available at this https URL.
[CV-188] SpectralCache: Accelerating Diffusion-Based World Models via Spectral Feature Caching
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02660
作者: Zhendong Mi,Pu Zhao,Ziyu Hu,Xiaodong Yu,Yanzhi Wang,Grace Li Zhang,Shaoyi Huang
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Diffusion-based world models enable high-quality interactive environment generation but suffer from substantial inference overhead due to repeated Transformer evaluations during denoising. Existing caching methods mainly exploit temporal redundancy at the feature or token level, leaving the underlying mathematical structure of diffusion features largely unexplored. In this work, we reveal that world-model features exhibit highly stable singular subspaces across nearby denoising steps, while their singular values follow predictable evolution patterns. Building on this observation, we propose SpectralCache, a training-free spectral caching framework that reuses stable singular subspaces and estimates only low-dimensional singular values through linear extrapolation. We further exploit the spectral consistency between neighboring full-computation features to skip selected expensive backbone evaluations via singular value scaling. Extensive experiments on representative world models demonstrate that SpectralCache consistently improves inference efficiency while preserving generation quality. On HunyuanWorld-Voyager-13B, SpectralCache achieves 5.22x acceleration while maintaining a WorldScore of 65.90 for static scenes, substantially outperforming existing training-free caching methods in inference efficiency.
[CV-189] Discovering Global False Negatives On the Fly for Self-supervised Contrastive Learning ICML2025
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20612
作者: Vicente Balmaseda,Bokun Wang,Ching-Long Lin,Tianbao Yang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
备注: Accepted to ICML 2025
Abstract:In self-supervised contrastive learning, negative pairs are typically constructed using an anchor image and a sample drawn from the entire dataset, excluding the anchor. However, this approach can result in the creation of negative pairs with similar semantics, referred to as “false negatives”, leading to their embeddings being falsely pushed apart. To address this issue, we introduce GloFND, an optimization-based approach that automatically learns on the fly the threshold for each anchor data to identify its false negatives during training. In contrast to previous methods for false negative discovery, our approach globally detects false negatives across the entire dataset rather than locally within the mini-batch. Moreover, its per-iteration computation cost remains independent of the dataset size. Experimental results on image and image-text data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Our implementation is available at this https URL.
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[AI-0] On the estimation and validity of AI time horizons—a statistical look at the METR plot
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12466
作者: Drew T. Nguyen,William Fithian
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:METR’s 50% time horizon measures the human completion time of software tasks that an AI solves with 50% probability, allowing AI capabilities to be expressed in interpretable units. On 228 tasks and 26 AIs, we recompute the time horizons using splines and item-response theory to relax the assumption that the AI difficulty of a task depends linearly on the log of human time. Our fitted spline can be interpreted as a function that \emphconverts human time to AI difficulty; it is nearly flat in a region from 2–30 min but close to linear elsewhere. Hence, a time-horizon jump from 3 min to 30 min is much easier than one from 30 min to 5 hours despite the same multiplier of 10 \times . Overall, we contribute time-horizon point estimates that perform better under a cross-validated suite of proper scoring rules, as well as diagnostic plots for assessing time horizons’ construct validity. We suggest that time horizons be interpreted together with the diagnostic plots, especially as new time-horizon-based benchmarks are proposed or existing ones grow to include longer tasks.
[AI-1] From Reactive Containment to Proactive Assurance: Lessons from OpenAI Anthropic and Google Agent Security Incidents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12463
作者: Abbas Raftari
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Conceptual research paper; includes one framework figure. The manuscript proposes a model-agnostic Boundary Assurance Stack for proactive security and accountable human oversight of high-capability AI agents
Abstract:In 2026, cybersecurity evaluations involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agents reached real systems outside their authorized test scope. The paths were different. OpenAI agents exploited research infrastructure, coordinated across runs, and compromised parts of Hugging Face’s production environment. Anthropic reported cases in which a misconfigured third-party environment exposed real systems to agents pursuing simulated cyber tasks. In a separately reported evaluation, Google’s Gemini accessed three real organizations through an unintended internet route; Google stated that the model stopped in all three instances. Taken together, the cases show why an evaluation cannot rely on an assumed boundary. That boundary must be verified while the agent is operating. This comparative instrumental case study develops a Proactive Agent Security Assurance Cycle (PASAC) and a five-layer Boundary Assurance Stack. The framework combines risk-tiered task design, executable scope contracts, pre-run validation, least-capability access, independent egress enforcement, credential restrictions, cross-run monitoring, automatic stop conditions, and evidence-based reauthorization. A leading-indicator model, nine design propositions, and seven falsifiable hypotheses turn these lessons into a testable research program. Because the public Gemini record is limited to attributed statements and journalism, its detailed causal mechanism remains provisional. The central conclusion is straightforward: proactive agent security requires continuous assurance across the full execution system, not confidence in any single sandbox or safeguard.
[AI-2] Bi-FORK: Generative Modeling of High-Dimensional Bifurcating Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12449
作者: Anna Zimmel,Fleur Hendriks,Markus Holzleitner,Florian Sestak,Martin Weichselbaumer,Vlado Menkovski,Johannes Brandstetter
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
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Abstract:Bifurcations are ubiquitous in physical systems, from structural buckling to fluid and climate dynamics, yet they remain largely unexplored in deep learning. At a symmetry-breaking bifurcation, a single input admits multiple equally valid solutions, violating the one-to-one assumption underlying most learned physical surrogates. We introduce Bi-FORK, a generative framework for learning these one-to-many solution maps in high-dimensional systems. Bi-FORK generates complete trajectories through latent flow matching, preserving space and time coherence, and uses repulsion-guided sampling to recover distinct solution branches in a single amortized pass. We evaluate Bi-FORK on buckling beams, mechanical metamaterials, and Allen-Cahn phase separation, spanning continuous, discrete, and field-valued bifurcations with discretizations up to 260,000 points. Bi-FORK recovers the multimodal solution structure while scaling several orders of magnitude beyond prior approaches, opening generative modeling to high-dimensional bifurcating physical systems.
[AI-3] Caught in the Act: Probes Effectively Detect Sabotage and Catch Unverbalized Deception
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12445
作者: Oskar J. Hollinsworth,Alex F. Spies,Tigist Diriba,Adam Gleave,Chris Cundy
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 11 pages main text, 98 pages total; 18 figures, 18 tables. Code and data: this https URL
Abstract:Recent incidents have highlighted the challenge of monitoring LLM agents and the danger of models deceiving people. We show that white-box deception detection via probes can be scaled up to frontier monitoring settings by collecting the largest deception dataset to date for training probes and introducing a novel probe architecture which can aggregate information across many layers and tokens. Our probes achieve 98.8% AUC in SHADE-Arena, surpassing an Opus 5.5 text-monitoring baseline, and show improved efficacy as the underlying model is scaled up. To push our probes to their limit, we test them on several cases where deception cannot be determined from the context alone. In these cases, which we refer to as introspective deception, the ground truth can only be determined through careful elicitation or thorough knowledge of a model’s training data. In one such evaluation, we show that probes can distinguish transcripts containing a model’s true hidden goal from other goals with an AUC of up to 99.7%. Our probes also readily detect deception on prominent open-weight models which lie about politically sensitive topics, and about their beliefs when put under pressure. We release our training dataset, dubbed FIBS, to help drive frontier deployment of effective probes, and encourage the community to expand upon it with further examples of deception and sabotage.
[AI-4] RoboRSI: Stable efficient and reusable robot self-evolution in complex real-world environments
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12424
作者: Zimo Wen,Yijin Chen,Yuxuan Cao,Wendi Chen,Yanwen Zou,Wenye Yu,Fuhang Kuang,Han Xue,Jun Lv,Chuan Wen,Cewu Lu
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:A generalist robot should not only perform diverse tasks but also improve through experience, turning what it learns during execution into capabilities that later tasks can reuse. Robot agents that act through code can already repair programs from execution feedback, yet it remains a central challenge to organize this experience around the task structure that gives it meaning, so that each repair is attributed to the responsible capability, supported by execution evidence, and validated before it is reused. We introduce RoboRSI, a robot self-improvement system built on Top-Down Skill Refinement (TSR). TSR decomposes tasks into compound, atomic, and base skills with scoped responsibilities and explicit input–output contracts, attributes each execution outcome to the responsible branch, and confines revision to that branch. Building upon this structure, a Manager, Planner, Engineer, and Reviewer coordinate planning, execution, diagnosis, and the validated release of new skills, while people steer the process through objectives and corrections; stable skill sequences are further consolidated into reusable compound skills. On a mobile manipulator, RoboRSI develops multi-object household cleanup over 104 rounds. In simulation, it achieves the highest success rate on LIBERO, LIBERO-PRO, LIBERO-Plus, and RoboTwin, exceeding the strongest baseline by 2.7 to 11.0 percentage points.
[AI-5] Searching for “Harmful Refusal”: A Psychometric Audit of an AI Safety Benchmark
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12409
作者: Christopher M. Stewart,Preston Botter,Natalie Sarabosing,Muye Zhang,Rachel Phinnemore,Shalini Ghosh,Hong Shen,Hoda Heidari
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: COLM 2026, AI for Measurement Science (AIMS) Workshop
Abstract:Safety benchmarks typically report one overall score for a suite of datasets, each of which may target one or more safety-related attributes, so models with similar overall scores can have very different attribute profiles. Comparing models is more tractable at the level of individual attributes, yet it is often unclear whether even a single dataset’s scores isolate any single attribute. One plausible candidate for such an attribute is harmful refusal, a model’s tendency to refuse dangerous or policy-violating prompts. We examine whether it constitutes a single, measurable attribute in HELM Safety. Using a construct validity framework that stipulates that an attribute must exist before a test can measure it, we start with HELM Safety’s four datasets that might plausibly target harmful refusal, but find that three are saturated. We subject the remaining dataset, HarmBench, to two psychometric tests to determine if a single attribute like harmful refusal could stand behind its score. First, multidimensional item response theory modeling strongly suggests that HarmBench does not measure a singular attribute. Second, a differential item functioning analysis finds items where models from different developers with the same refusal ability score differently. These flags largely disappear under scope-specific matching, a pattern consistent with aggregation effects but not sufficient to rule out domain-specific developer differences. Zooming out, HarmBench collapses distinct harm behaviors into one score, and the overall HELM safety aggregate further collapses HarmBench and scores from other datasets into a single top-line number. Any safety score that averages over datasets and items can hide saturation and conflate behaviors this way. We argue that a score should earn its single-attribute reading before models are compared with it.
[AI-6] HRIL: Learning Multimodal Synergy via Higher-Order Tensor Modeling NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12393
作者: Qun Dai,Liangjian Wen,Jiang Duan,Yong Dai,Dongkai Wang,Maolin Wang,Mingjie Wang,Jianzhuang Liu,He Yan,Zhao Kang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Self-supervised multimodal representation learning has achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet capturing synergistic information remains challenging due to the complexity of cross-modal interactions. Unlike the shared information across individual modalities, synergy arises when task-relevant signals emerge only from the joint configuration of multiple modalities and cannot be recovered from any modality in isolation. This work focuses on how to preserve the information capacity for such synergistic signals in multimodal representations. The key observation is that synergistic information is reflected in higher-order statistical dependence among modalities, which provides a principled target for explicitly modeling joint interactions. Motivated by this insight, we propose Higher-order Representation and Information Learning (HRIL), which constructs an empirical cross-moment tensor over modality embeddings to represent multi-way interactions. HRIL employs Tucker decomposition to obtain a core tensor, complemented by a synergy-aware regularizer that prevents energy concentration and preserves higher-order coupling capacity for synergistic information capture. Experiments on the controlled synergy task and real-world benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over existing multimodal contrastive methods, with notable gains on tasks dominated by synergistic interactions. Code is released at this https URL.
[AI-7] GeoReform: Reflective Formalization Evolution for Multimodal Geometry Problem Solving
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12391
作者: Jialu Wang,Ruichen Zhang,Xiaoou Liu,Hua Wei,Tianlong Chen
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle to identify and use geometric relations in diagrams. Recent methods address this challenge by converting geometric entities, relations, and constraints into explicit textual representations for the model to reason over. However, effective formalization is highly non-trivial: on Geometry3K, structure injection fixes 28 errors but introduces 13 new ones among 200 examples. Redundant relations can distract the model, while ambiguous references to diagram elements can lead it to apply constraints incorrectly. This suggests that the key challenge is not merely extracting more geometric facts, but organizing them into representations that support downstream reasoning. To fully exploit the power of formalization, we further propose GeoReform, a reflective formalization evolution framework that treats formalization as an optimizable policy rather than a fixed parser output. GeoReform executes the full reasoning pipeline, collects failed rollouts, diagnoses defects in the current representation, and mutates the policy to better select, ground, group, and present geometric entities, relations, constraints, and targets. On Geometry3K, GeoReform improves Qwen3VL-2B accuracy from 42.0% to 56.0%. Extensive experiments and analyses across geometry reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that effective formalization is crucial for improving multimodal geometry reasoning.
[AI-8] ARC: A Reasoning Recipe for Robot Foundation Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12386
作者: Gokul Puthumanaillam,Tao Sun,Elie Aljalbout,Moritz Reuss,Zhaoshuo Li,Fabio Ramos,Ankit Goyal,Jenai Xuning Yang
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The prevailing approach to improving robot foundation models (RFMs) relies on larger models, more robot demonstrations, and costly training at scale. We show that there exists an effective and efficient complementary approach: the right reasoning recipe can substantially improve the zero-shot task performance of existing state-of-the-art RFMs. We refer to this recipe as ARC. It consists of three key ingredients: a reasoning trace, a scalable automatic labeling pipeline, and a strategy for adapting pretrained RFMs to use these traces for control. First, we find that effective reasoning traces should be grounded in the robot’s next action and explain its causal structure: why the action is appropriate and what effect it should produce. Second, we show that these traces can be generated automatically from existing demonstrations, enabling us to construct ARC-Trace-DROID from DROID without collecting new robot data. Third, we show how state-of-the-art VLAs such as \pi_0.5 and WAMs such as Cosmos3-Nano-Policy can learn to use these traces for control, with fine-tuning and inference tailored to each model’s architecture and capabilities. Using ARC, we obtain gains in zero-shot RFM performance that, to our knowledge, are unprecedented without additional robot demonstrations or foundation-scale training. The adapted models establish a new state of the art on RoboLab-120 and MolmoSpaces, with gains of up to 50 percentage points on RoboLab-Reasoning-50. On real robots, ARC improves \pi_0.5 's task success by 82.2 percentage points. Project website: this https URL
[AI-9] Prior or Feedback? What an LLM Uses When Adapting Neural Operators NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12325
作者: Julian Chan,Javier Mora Jimenez
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
备注: 16 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI for Science: Verification in the Age of AI Scientists. Equal contribution
Abstract:Do LLM scientific agents rely only on their initial task context, or do they adapt their decisions in response to experimental feedback? We study this question in neural operator adaptation, where a large language model (LLM) selects fine-tuning configurations under a limited trial budget. Across transfers within and between partial differential equation (PDE) families, the LLM achieves lower held-out test nRMSE than random search and Bayesian optimisation in nearly every matched comparison. Endpoint performance alone cannot distinguish what happens, so we verify each attribution with controlled interventions. Before observing any validation score, the LLM’s first configuration already ranks near the top of the corresponding random-search pool, indicating a useful initial bias. A complementary cold-start intervention shows that the selected base learning rate shifts with the PDE description. Once feedback becomes available, reassigning validation scores among evaluated configurations changes the next proposal in every case tested, whereas a value-preserving rewrite produces no comparable aggregate effect. These interventions establish that the LLM’s decision-level actions respond to the given task and observed outcomes, showing that it combines a task-dependent prior with sensitivity to experimental feedback.
[AI-10] A Structural Theory of Cognitive Representation and Problem SolvingContexts Invariance and the Knowledge Space
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12306
作者: Antal Jakovác,András Telcs
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 41 pages, 1 figure
Abstract:Learning and problem solving depend critically on the structure of internal representations. While many modern data-driven artificial systems achieve strong predictive performance, their learned representations often lack explicit structure for expressing abstraction, invariance, and task-relevant regularities. We propose a minimal structural framework in which representational operations relevant to problem solving, such as context formation, invariance recognition, representative selection, abstraction, and procedural reuse, are made explicit. The central notion is that of a \emphcontext, formalized as a partition of a subset of an underlying state space, which fixes the distinctions, granularity, and form in which a problem can be posed. Within this setting, invariance recognition and representative selection are treated as fundamental representational operations. The framework is realized as a Knowledge Space composed of two coupled graph structures: a Concept Graph that hosts constructed and refined concepts, and a Procedure Graph that encodes typed operations over representations. Together, these structures provide a minimal cognitive-representational algebra for operating on representations without assuming sophisticated inference, learning, control, perception, or motor mechanisms. Using simple illustrative examples and a finite weak-solver demonstration, we show that appropriate representational organization can simplify the form and scope of admissible regularities, even when problem solving is carried out by a fixed and limited solver. The contribution of the paper is structural rather than algorithmic: it identifies representational prerequisites for abstraction, invariance, and procedural reuse in problem solving, and states explicit success and failure conditions for the weak-solver setting.
[AI-11] Looking Inside LLM s: Small-World Connectivity as a Signature of Reasoning Performance
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12304
作者: Zheng Huang,Sansheng Cao,Enpei Zhang,Weikang Qiu,Elynn Chen,Xiang Zhang,Yaoqing Yang,Rex Ying,Dawei Zhou,Yujun Yan
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Understanding large language model (LLM) reasoning requires looking beyond behavioral performance to examine how reasoning ability is reflected in internal organization. Inspired by neuroscience findings linking higher intelligence to stronger small-world organization in functional brain networks, we investigate small-world connectivity as a structural signature of LLM reasoning. We construct functional graphs from attention-head activation similarities and find that a higher small-world index (SWI), capturing local clustering and short global paths, consistently correlates with better fluid reasoning performance across models and training checkpoints. Since local clustering is central to small-world organization, we further examine how heads important for model performance connect within and across communities. We find that these heads tend to have a larger share of connection weight within their own communities (high core scores) and a more concentrated weight distribution across communities (low bridge scores). These observations motivate the hypothesis that high core and low bridge scores serve as structural indicators of head importance for reasoning capability. We validate this hypothesis through pruning, introducing Small-World Allocation (SWA), a hierarchical sparsity allocation method guided by these scores. Across six LLMs, SWA better preserves small-world organization and model performance than competing allocation strategies, reducing WikiText perplexity by up to 20%. Together, these findings identify small-world functional connectivity as a measurable signature of LLM reasoning performance, offering a structural perspective that complements behavioral evaluation.
[AI-12] Learning Probabilistic Logic Programs with Functional Gradient Guided Language Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12303
作者: Saurabh Mathur,Sahil Sidheekh,Bhavan Vasu,Farbod Tavakkoli,Prasad Tadepalli,Kristian Kersting,Sriraam Natarajan
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Declarative logic programs offer a powerful and interpretable abstraction for encoding relational structure and neurosymbolic reasoning, by expressing dependencies as weighted compositional rules. However, inducing them from data remains fundamentally hard, bottlenecked by the combinatorial explosion of symbolic search spaces. LLMs have recently emerged as powerful hypothesis generators, but when used in isolation, they lack the capacity to do systematic inductive reasoning needed to reliably synthesize valid programs that fit complex relational distributions. We introduce grasp (Gradient-boosted Synthesis of Probabilistic logic programs), a neurosymbolic framework that casts relational structure learning as functional gradient boosting in which the weak learner is a first-order rule and the intractable inner search is delegated to an LLM proposal oracle. We evaluate grasp on four relational benchmarks spanning molecular toxicity prediction (Tox21), mutagenesis, and citation matching (Cora), and show that it improves over purely symbolic, neural, and LLM-based baselines, while producing interpretable weighted rule ensembles. By replacing combinatorial search with gradient-guided LLM hypothesis generation, grasp retains boosting guarantees without sacrificing the transparency of symbolic outputs.
[AI-13] One Word Opens the Gate: The Option-Channel Attack on Typed Decision Models as Agent Guardrails
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12292
作者: Seyedarmin Azizi,Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo,Massoud Pedram
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:A typed decision model reads a piece of text and returns a probability over caller-defined options, each with a short written definition, generating no text. Recent work places these models in agent systems as guardrails: the component that reads a proposed tool call or incoming message and decides whether to allow it. We evaluate seven open-weight models in that role and report the two error directions separately: a fail-open error allows a prohibited action and is a vulnerability; a fail-closed error blocks a permitted one and is only a cost. On prompt-injection, jailbreak and toxic-content screening, accuracy at the allow-or-block decision ranges from 36% to 72% against a chance level of 50%. A low error rate in one direction only reflects which answer a model defaults to: one allows nearly everything, another blocks nearly everything. On a synthetic suite of agent tool calls, six lines of server log text that say nothing about the policy raise a gate’s fail-open rate from 0% to 63% on a policy it otherwise decides correctly. Giving the permissive option a misleading name, with its definition and the judged text untouched, raises that rate to between 93% and 100% on the four models that place the label in their input. Every defense we tested is defeated, either by an attacker who targets its mechanism or by attacker-controlled text. Escalating the least confident decisions does not help either: a decision an attack has reversed is no less confident than the one it replaced. Parsing each policy field into a typed value does eliminate one attack, but it also makes the model unnecessary: a deterministic rule over those values reaches 100% accuracy on all six policies. These models can reduce how many cases reach a reviewer, but on this evidence they should not be the component that decides. Code is available at this https URL.
[AI-14] How Much Audio Is Left In An Embedding? An Inversion Audit Of Audio Encoders ICASSP2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12250
作者: Marios Glytsos,Brian McFee
类目: ound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Pretrained audio encoders are reused for downstream tasks that are often unknown when the encoder is trained, so their usefulness depends partly on which signal properties survive the pretext objective. We study this retained information through paired source reconstruction. Using a shared Stable Audio Open latent diffusion decoder, we reconstruct five-second, 44.1-kHz stereo music from frozen representations produced by supervised classifiers (VGGish, ConvNeXt), an audio-text contrastive model (CLAP), and a waveform-reconstruction model (EnCodec). These objectives impose different pressures to preserve source detail, while their exposed interfaces vary substantially in temporal and spectral resolution. Evaluating on the Million Song Dataset (MSD), we find clear differences in reconstructability across encoder families, while within encoder comparisons show improved recovery when finer temporal or spectral structure is exposed. Even compressed task oriented embeddings support reconstructions that preserve measurable source specificity and high level musical content.
[AI-15] Real-Time Motion Planning with Dynamic Hazards: Classical vs. Learning-Based Methods
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12249
作者: Eran Iceland,Alexander Tuisov,Oren Gal,Ariel Barel,Alfred M. Bruckstein
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: This paper is scheduled to be presented at the 2027 International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 2027)
Abstract:We study real-time motion planning in dynamic hazard fields through a controlled comparison between classical planning and learning-based methods. Rather than introducing a new planner, we construct a unified benchmark in which representative classical and learning-based methods face the same environments, motion constraints, information assumptions, and evaluation metrics. The test environment consists of planar domains populated with rotating sprinkler-like hazards that generate time-varying forbidden regions via sweeping angular sectors. Our results show a clear regime shift. In deterministic environments, classical planners achieve near-perfect success and higher-quality paths, though sometimes at the cost of substantial planning or replanning time. Under stochastic obstacle dynamics, however, online search becomes strongly budget-sensitive: low budgets lead to frequent failure, while high budgets improve success at the cost of latency and longer trajectories. PPO-based policies, trained under the same scenario distribution, consistently outperform in latency, success rate, and path quality in these stochastic regimes. Overall, the results indicate that uncertainty in obstacle evolution, more than partial observability, is the dominant factor determining which planning paradigm is practically effective for the problem at hand.
[AI-16] Batch Before You Lift: Scalable Topological Deep Learning on Large Graphs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12247
作者: David Leko,Luka Benić,Guillermo Bernárdez,Nina Miolane,Olga Fink,Lev Telyatnikov
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Topological Deep Learning extends graph-based learning to higher-order domains, such as hypergraphs, cellular, and simplicial complexes. These domains are typically constructed from patterns in an input graph through a process of graph lifting. Full-domain training constructs and stores the complete lifted representation before model execution. On large and dense datasets like Reddit (233k nodes and 57.3M edges), this global materialization becomes a severe computational bottleneck, often rendering training infeasible. To address this limitation, we introduce Cluster-TNN, a domain-agnostic framework that avoids this bottleneck by lifting locally instead. After partitioning the input graph during preprocessing, at runtime Cluster-TNN dynamically samples groups of node clusters, reconstructs their induced subgraphs to form mini-batches, and applies the chosen lifting within each mini-batch. Retaining all edges among sampled nodes preserves the connectivity needed to construct higher-order structures across clusters, producing topological mini-batches that existing Topological Neural Networks can process directly. Across 21 matched comparisons with full-graph execution, Cluster-TNN reduces peak GPU memory in every configuration, by 83.2% on average while maintaining competitive predictive performance. Notably, such a reduction enables, to our knowledge, the first training of multiple different higher-order Topological Neural Networks on large datasets such as Reddit and OGBN Products. These results establish Cluster-TNN as a general strategy for scaling Topological Deep Learning beyond the limitations of global domain construction.
[AI-17] AdaCast: Conditional Parameter Generation for Adaptive Time Series Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12240
作者: Darahaas Nallagatla,Darryl Cherian Jacob,Pan He
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) have achieved strong forecasting performance across domains. However, most adaptation methods remain static. Existing all-in-one methods learn a single set of dataset-level parameter updates and apply the same adapted model to every input. As a result, they cannot adapt the model parameters to the temporal patterns, seasonality and dynamics of each input time series. This limits their ability to produce forecasts that are tailored to heterogeneous inputs. To address this limitation, we propose AdaCast, a conditional parameter generation framework for time-series forecasting. AdaCast uses a generator to produce input-specific low-rank parameter updates for a frozen pretrained TSFM. These updates adapt the model to each input during both training and inference. Across six public benchmarks, AdaCast consistently outperforms static adaptation baseline in in-domain forecasting and improves zero-shot generalization to held-out datasets across domains. These results demonstrate that conditional parameter generation provides an effective approach for adaptive forecasting.
[AI-18] ReSI: Recursive Safety Improvement toward Resistant and Resilient AI
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12233
作者: Jingnan Zheng,Dongcheng Zhang,Yi Zhang,Ming Zhang,Qiaosheng Zhang,Youbang Sun,An Zhang,Xiangnan He,Tat-Seng Chua,Xia Hu,Bowen Zhou,Chaochao Lu,Xiang Wang
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Recursive self-improvement, the participation of AI systems in improving their own capabilities, is beginning to move from theoretical prospect to practice, posing both challenges and opportunities for safety alignment. Models evolve through frequent updates, and their safety alignment requires continual adaptation to each new checkpoint. Meanwhile, with evolving red-teaming methods exposing new vulnerabilities, safety improvement for each checkpoint needs to mitigate exposed vulnerabilities and generalize to risks not yet revealed. Following R ^2 AI, we term these goals resistance to known threats and resilience to unforeseen risks. Recursive self-improvement, in turn, inspires an approach to both goals: safety alignment could likewise advance through successive rounds of evaluation and update. We therefore introduce ReSI, a recursive safety improvement framework that implements this approach through automated research. In each round, ReSI applies diverse red-teaming methods to identify vulnerabilities in the current target model, develops training recipes, and promotes the update with the largest safety gain among those passing a Pareto gate on capability retention as the next target model. Across four dense and mixture-of-experts models, ReSI matches or exceeds evaluated frontier models on in-distribution and out-of-distribution safety benchmarks, and outperforms alignment baselines on nearly all safety evaluations while largely preserving general capabilities. In particular, ReSI reduces the mean X-Teaming attack success rate across the four models from 86.01% to 31.45%, well below GPT-5.6-Luna’s leading frontier result of 56.69%, indicating stronger resilience to attacks unseen during training. These findings support recursive safety improvement as a practical path toward resistant and resilient AI.
[AI-19] When Has a Bayesian Neural Network Sampled Enough? Adaptive Inference Time with Statistical Guarantees NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12212
作者: Fabian Denoodt,Sibylle Hess
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026). Workshop: E-Values: From Statistics to ML
Abstract:Bayesian neural network predictions are commonly approximated using a fixed number of Monte Carlo samples per input, without controlling the resulting error that comes from this finite sample. We propose the use of confidence sequences to dynamically determine how many samples are needed while maintaining statistical guarantees. We consider several ways in which predictive probabilities are used, including identifying the most likely class, approximating the full predictive distribution, and resolving probability-threshold decisions. Sampling stops once the corresponding decision can be made with the desired guarantee. Experiments show that the method allocates the computational budget efficiently, assigning more samples to ambiguous inputs than to easy inputs while preserving reliable decisions and reducing overall latency relative to a fixed Monte Carlo budget.
[AI-20] A Closer Look at Agent ic BBO: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Black-Box Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12183
作者: Ming Chen,Rong-Xi Tan,Ke Xue,Yu-Jie Zhou,Taiye Lu,Zhi-Xuan Gao,Peng Xie,Zijun Shen,Chen Lu,Haopu Shang,Chao Qian
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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Abstract:Black-box optimization (BBO) arises in many scientific and engineering problems where objective evaluations are expensive and limited. Recent large language model (LLM) agents offer a new way to approach BBO by combining task semantics, computation, optimization tools, and feedback-driven decision making, showing great potential due to the integration with mathematically rigorous tools. However, existing agentic BBO studies use different task domains and system configurations, making their results difficult to compare and the effects of individual design choices hard to isolate. We therefore introduce AgenticBBO-Bench, a cross-domain benchmark for agentic BBO spanning synthetic functions, hyperparameter optimization, database tuning, chip design, and molecular design under a unified finite-budget evaluation protocol. In our experiments, agentic BBO achieves higher family-averaged scores than direct LLM-based methods in all five domains and outperforms the best numerical optimizers in four. We further study three factors shaping agent performance: optimization tools, task information and prior knowledge, and the role of the LLM during search. Our results show that additional numerical tools do not consistently improve performance, task semantics are broadly useful while more specific priors are less reliable, and numerical optimizers can effectively absorb gains from search trajectories established by the agent. Finally, we introduce a five-task frontier challenge within AgenticBBO-Bench and evaluate seven LLMs under the Codex agent harness, where GPT-6 Astra and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash lie on the Pareto frontier of performance and cost among the evaluated models. Our code is available at this https URL.
[AI-21] Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176
作者: Hyunin Lee,Jinglue Xu,Jeffrey Seely,Donghyun Lee,Somayeh Sojoudi,Matei Zaharia,Yujin Tang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 39 pages
Abstract:Recursive self-improvement (RSI) of a model on non-verifiable tasks, such as open-ended research, faces a supervision bottleneck when its outputs exceed what even human experts can reliably assess, leaving the model itself (optimizee) as the best available optimizer and evaluator. However, a single model instance struggles to critique and improve its own complex reasoning under this homogeneous loop. To address this, we propose Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS), an RSI method that alternates between evolutionary workflow optimization and supervised fine-tuning on self-generated trajectories. Guided by early findings that multi-agent topologies excel at complex reasoning, MASS prompts a single base model to iteratively propose, execute, and self-evaluate multi-agent workflows. Through an evolutionary search constrained by structural guardrails, the model optimizes these computational-graph-like orchestrations, discovering the most effective distinct roles and information routing for a given task. Over two MASS cycles with Qwen3.6-27B, the model achieves 1.2-1.6x higher performance per output tokens on four open-ended public benchmarks. Because the improved model subsequently acts as a better optimizer and evaluator, this alternating framework enables a continuous, recursive bootstrapping of the model’s capabilities. Moreover, multi-agent traces are also more training-efficient: a student trained on them outperforms a single-agent student trained on 1.4x more training tokens. These findings suggest that jointly learning orchestration and bounded subagent execution from multi-agent trajectories can provide an effective signal for RSI.
[AI-22] Unifying Policy Learning and State Prediction through Spatial Language Modeling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12172
作者: Minye Wu,Zehao Wang,Tinne Tuytelaars
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Learning how actions change scene geometry can provide complementary supervision for goal-directed manipulation. We introduce Spatial Language Modeling, which represents scene contours, goals, action targets, and future states with a shared vocabulary of discrete coordinates and semantic tokens. A task-specific grammar organizes these elements into spatial sequences, allowing one autoregressive Transformer to learn action generation and action-conditioned state prediction through a common next-token objective. We train the model from scratch using random-play transition pretraining followed by joint action and state training on expert demonstrations. During pretraining, recorded action coordinates condition subsequent state predictions and are excluded from the prediction loss. During control, the model decodes only executable action targets and updates its history with newly observed states. We evaluate the approach on Push-T in simulation and on a real robot. The model achieves competitive simulation performance and higher task success and target coverage than the evaluated real-robot policy baselines. Training ablations show improved control with joint action and state sequences, with further gains from random-play pretraining. Given supplied action trajectories, the same model also predicts successive scene states, capturing the geometric effects of pushing.
[AI-23] Learning to Plan by Looking Back: Hindsight Hierarchies for Training Reasoning Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12168
作者: Lars Simon,Holger Eble,Manuel Radons
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
备注: 21 Pages, 4 Figures
Abstract:We introduce a self-improvement loop for reasoning models based on the following observation: Even when the difficulty of a problem exceeds the model’s current solving abilities, an additionally supplied solution might enable the model to extract useful solution ideas in hindsight. We operationalize this by jointly training the same model to exhibit the following three capabilities: predicting solution ideas from problems alone, reverse-engineering ideas from problems and known solutions, and solving problems using provided ideas. The loop alternates between reverse engineering such ideas from problems with supplied solutions and using these ideas as additional supervision for joint training of all three capabilities. We give a formal specification of our method and a concrete instantiation for interactive theorem proving in the Lean theorem prover; empirical evaluation remains future work.
[AI-24] Scalable Hierarchical Graph Generation via Soft Community Structure
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12163
作者: Ahmet Tüzen,Helge Langseth,Kjetil Nørvåg
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Generating large attributed graphs requires reproducing the topology, generating attributes jointly with the structure, and remaining scalable. Many real-world graphs exist as a single large graph, so a generative model has to generalize from the one graph it is fit on, without independent samples. We present Schema, which recursively decomposes a reference graph into a hierarchy of soft communities, assigning each node a membership distribution. Generation is then split into three stages, each trained independently: (1) synthesizing node attributes conditioned on soft memberships, (2) generating intra-community edges from local structural context, and (3) modeling inter-community connections over bridge nodes whose membership mass is distributed across several communities. No stage forms the full adjacency matrix, and each stage operates on a subgraph bounded by the community size. We also introduce an evaluation protocol that covers structural fidelity, memorization, downstream utility, and scalability. On four real-world attributed graphs, Schema recovers the balance between local and long-range structure more closely than any other model that generates attributes, while reproducing only a small fraction of the reference edges. It retains the downstream accuracy of the reference graph without raising it artificially above that level. Baselines that match its structural fidelity memorize the reference, while those with higher downstream accuracy either exceed the reference accuracy or fail to complete on the larger graphs. We measure scalability on six additional graphs with up to 10 million nodes.
[AI-25] Instruction-Conditioned Electromagnetic Spectrum Understanding via Budget-Adaptive Signal Tokenization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12142
作者: Lei Zhai,Zhihao Chang,Shuyuan Yang,Zhixi Feng
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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Abstract:Electromagnetic spectrum monitoring increasingly requires flexible analysis beyond task-specific recognition and detection. Multimodal large language models offer a unified interface, but extending vision-language models (VLMs) to raw I/Q signals requires tokenization that balances fidelity against a strict budget. For signals, dense encoding causes token costs to grow with observation length, whereas fixed-resolution compression may discard short-duration or localized signal evidence. Thus, we propose \textbfBATok, a budget-adaptive signal tokenizer that adjusts token capacity to the input length while allocating that capacity according to the signal content. BATok constructs candidate representations from signal-derived features using lightweight multi-resolution branches, then combines a local energy prior with learnable queries to resample these representations into compact signal tokens. The number of tokens adapts to the input length while remaining strictly bounded. The resulting tokens are projected into the language embedding space of VLMs. We further introduce \textbfEMSpec-Instruct, a multimodal instruction dataset aligning raw I/Q signals, waterfall images, and language supervision for modulation recognition, structured detection, and language-conditioned signal grounding. Experiments show that BATok learns effective signal representations and achieves competitive performance across all tasks.
[AI-26] Q-Shaped Options for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12135
作者: Clarisse Wibault,Antoine Gorceix,Antonio Léon Villares,Alexey Zakharov,Evangelos Chatzaroulas,Michael Matthews,Eduardo Pignatelli,Jakob Foerster
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Learning to tackle long-horizon, goal-conditioned tasks requires an agent to reason over extended timescales and act across a broad range of states. In principle, Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) addresses both challenges through the interaction between action (temporal) and state (spatial) abstraction. First, using an action abstraction to represent temporally extended behaviour as options reduces the effective decision horizon. Second, enabling different state abstractions at each level of the decision process permits greater data aggregation for learning. However, realising these two benefits of a hierarchical policy depends on learning an appropriate action abstraction. Current HRL algorithms fail in one of two ways. Some discard distinctions between options needed for optimal control, undermining hierarchy altogether. Others retain unnecessary distinctions, preserving horizon reduction, but forfeiting coarser state abstraction. In this work, we characterise three desiderata for an action abstraction. We introduce Q-Shaped Options (QSO) to address all three. QSO builds on an architecture with distinct state-value functions, Q functions and policies at each level of the hierarchy. It learns the action abstraction between consecutive levels as a shared encoder shaped by their respective Q functions. The low-level Q function uses the option as a goal, encouraging the abstraction to retain distinctions necessary for optimal control. The high-level Q function uses it as an action, encouraging unnecessary distinctions to be discarded. Across offline goal-conditioned locomotion and manipulation environments, QSO learns semantically meaningful option spaces and outperforms baselines, achieving non-zero performance in tasks where all other evaluated algorithms fail.
[AI-27] An Investigation of Model Coherence: Narrow Finetunes Contradict Themselves Under Resampling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12129
作者: Robert Graham,Yariv Barsheshat,Phil Blandfort,Sabri Alouache
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:A large body of research measures model coherence based on output variance without adequately considering competing causes. We identify two such causes, ambiguity and indifference, and we introduce a set of 175 questions where contradicting answers cannot easily be explained by either. We then measure incoherence in terms of contradictions when resampling answers to the same question. In contrast to other methods our metric has high specificity, and only ranks models as incoherent when the issues are glaring. Even so, we find narrow finetunes score poorly. Inspecting inconsistencies flagged by our method, we find that model organisms from the literature display severe issues such as identity conflation, introspection failures and rationalizations. These findings suggest that the pathologies induced by narrow finetuning may limit what these models can tell us about coherent misaligned behaviour.
[AI-28] Use and Disuse: Intent-Structured Experience Consolidation for Memory and Learning in LLM Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12124
作者: Xiangyi Zeng,Baihang Liu,Xutong Wang,Ze Jin,Yunpeng Li,Qixu Liu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 33 pages, including references and appendices
Abstract:The evolution of Large Language Model agents from single-task execution to long-term autonomous operation highlights the critical challenge of transforming continuous experiences into reusable knowledge. To address this, we propose Hippocam, a hierarchical memory and continual learning architecture. Hippocam draws inspiration from two characteristics of human memory: cognitive processes selectively maintain information relevant to current goals, while long-term memories form gradually through repeated consolidation. Accordingly, Hippocam structures an agent’s ongoing work as nested intents. The active context remains centered on the current intent, while completed intents are consolidated into the task-relevant outcomes and state needed for subsequent work, rather than carrying forward their full working details. Concurrently, a recursive prefix consolidation mechanism repeatedly consolidates earlier history, causing long-unused experiences to become increasingly abstract. Original interactions are preserved, allowing the agent to progressively recover finer-grained details through the hierarchy and stop once sufficient information is available. Crucially, when past experiences are recalled and reintegrated into active work, they undergo subsequent consolidation alongside new experiences, thereby being reinforced, supplemented, and updated. Through this memory dynamic of use and disuse, Hippocam connects working context, long-term memory, knowledge accumulation, and skill learning within a single continuously evolving experiential process. This enables agents to learn and evolve capabilities through their own experiences without parameter updates.
[AI-29] Using Weisfeiler-Leman Features for Algorithm Selection in Constraint Optimisation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12119
作者: Alessio Pellegrino,Jacopo Mauro
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Algorithm Selection is essential for efficient Constraint Programming. Over the years, many algorithm selectors based on machine learning methods have been successfully applied, yet traditional feature extraction methods often rely on manually decided instance-level statistics that fail to capture the underlying problem structure. In this paper we aim to bridge this gap by introducing a novel, automated feature extraction methodology that integrates graph conversion and Weisfeiler-Lehman graph kernels to generate robust structural representations of problem instances. The 1-WL test bounds the graph-distinguishing power of standard message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and suitable GNN architectures match this bound \citepXuetal2018. WL-based features offer an alternative that does not require training a GNN. Our primary contribution is a cut-based representation (\textttWLc) designed to model structural partitions and provide a more nuanced predictive signal. We evaluate our approach on instances from the 2023–2025 MiniZinc Challenges across two tasks: maximizing Borda count scores and maximizing predictive accuracy. Experimental results across Support Vector Machines, Random Forests, and Multi-Layer Perceptrons demonstrate that cut-based features outperform \textttfzn2feat with SVMs, while results with RFs and MLPs are closer. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) ACMclasses: I.2.6 Cite as: arXiv:2610.12119 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.12119v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.12119 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-30] Universal Textual Teaching for LLM s
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12114
作者: Zhanyi Lu,Huan Wang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from stronger Teacher models to weaker Student models, but most methods require training the Student parameters, thereby binding the distilled knowledge to a specific architecture and checkpoint. This implicit representation is difficult to interpret or reuse across models and limits KD for API-only or costly-to-train models. This paper studies knowledge transfer for large language models (LLMs). We introduce Universal Textual Teaching (UTT), a parameter-update-free framework that distills observed Teacher-Student knowledge gaps into a textual, interpretable, and reusable natural-language artifact called Primer. Specifically, UTT first identifies representative gap cases through paired evaluations, and iteratively updates the Primer via multi-role interactions: the Student attempts each task, the Prompter turns evaluation feedback into a teaching instruction, the Teacher provides a targeted demonstration, and the Synthesizer consolidates validated lessons. Empirically, on the challenging math (Omni-MATH-2) and code generation (KernelBench) tasks, extensive results confirm the effectiveness of the method: UTT remarkably raises the Student’s accuracy from 9.4% to 48.6% and Fast1 accuracy from 9% to 35% on KernelBench, while increasing mathematical reasoning accuracy from 27.6% to 51.7%. UTT also performs better than representative prompt engineering and parameter-based KD methods. Of note, UTT is shown to be generalizable across different Teachers and Students: a Primer synthesized for one Teacher-Student pair can generalize to other Students that do not participate in the synthesis.
[AI-31] A Geometric Approach to Soft Actor-Critic with Zonotopes for Locomotion Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12113
作者: Panagiotis Roditis,Panagiotis P. Filntisis,Petros Maragos
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Off-policy actor–critic methods control overestimation bias by taking the minimum of two critics. This uses the same aggregation rule everywhere, regardless of how the critics disagree. We propose \textbfGeZo-SAC, which uses auxiliary geometric representations to adapt critic pessimism to the state and action. Alongside its scalar value, each critic predicts a set of generators defining a zonotope. Probing this zonotope along sampled directions provides a geometric width, "subtracted from each critic value as a pessimistic offset, and a measure of disagreement between the two critics, aggregated with log-sum-exp. This disagreement controls how the critics are combined, moving from a width-weighted average toward the usual minimum as disagreement increases. At inference, the deployed policy is an unmodified SAC actor, since the generators are used only on the critic side during this http URL four MuJoCo-v5 locomotion benchmarks and six off-policy baselines, GeZo-SAC achieves the highest mean return on Ant-v5 and Hopper-v5 and remains competitive with other methods on the remaining tasks. Our analysis further shows that GeZo-SAC achieves the lowest average actuator work and action effort per metre among the evaluated methods, while maintaining near-zero measured overestimation frequency across all four environments.
[AI-32] Recompose and Refine Latent Reasoning Flows for Vision-Language-Action Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12090
作者: Hongyu Shi,Sen Zhao,Zuyu Zhang,Lifeng Shen,Ding Zou,Xinyu He,Xu Zhang,Qinghua Zhang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Latent reasoning enables vision-language-action (VLA) models to transform multimodal observations into task-relevant internal states before generating continuous robot actions. While existing methods learn to generate or refine such states for each policy query, they discard successful reasoning after execution and therefore reconstruct similar computation from scratch. We present Reasoning and Flow Memory (FLOWMEM), a unified VLA model that turns successful latent computation into reusable reasoning experience. Rather than appending a fixed retrieved context, FLOWMEM dynamically retrieves and recomposes compatible latent fragments as the embodied context evolves, forming a reasoning route that follows the temporal structure and progress of successful computation. The route is then refined using current visual and proprioceptive evidence before it conditions action generation. Experiments on RoboMME and LIBERO-Plus show that FLOWMEM attains 48.0% and 77.3% success, outperforming memory-free policies by 1.7 and 4.1 percentage points, respectively. These results demonstrate the value of reusing successful latent computation for closed-loop VLA control.
[AI-33] EvoAlloc: A Self-Evolving Resource Allocation Agent for Efficient Program Evolution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12086
作者: Yanning Dai,Yuhui Wang,Nanbo Li,Wenyi Wang,Jürgen Schmidhuber
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 31 pages, 11 figures, 9 tables
Abstract:LLM-based program evolution relies on evaluation feedback to guide the iterative search for high-performing programs. However, evaluation is often computationally expensive, making it essential to allocate limited resources to candidates that can most effectively advance the search. Existing LLM-based methods typically rely on fixed allocation strategies throughout the search, potentially wasting resources on low-value candidates while overlooking promising ones. We propose EvoAlloc, a self-evolving resource-allocation agent that learns from search experience to revise its strategy for allocating computational resources across candidates. EvoAlloc periodically consolidates prior search and allocation outcomes into reusable experience, which informs subsequent strategy revisions. It further uses a counterfactual exploration mechanism to occasionally evaluate candidates denied resources by the allocator, revealing their outcomes to enrich its experience for future strategy updates. Across coding and agent-harness optimization benchmarks, EvoAlloc requires 59-82% fewer full evaluations and 61-89% fewer total LLM tokens to reach baseline-level performance. Moreover, under the same full-evaluation budget, EvoAlloc achieves 8.7-12.0% higher final performance.
[AI-34] Is Memorization Context-Sensitive? Prefix-Based Extraction Beyond Isolated Prefixes EMNLP2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12085
作者: Ali Satvaty,Narjes Sharafi,Jirui Qi,Suzan Verberne,Fatih Turkmen
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted at EMNLP 2026
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) can expose memorized training sequences under prefix-based extraction: given a prefix from a training example, the model may assign high probability to the original continuation. In deployed systems, however, prefixes are rarely evaluated in isolation. They often appear together with instructions, retrieved documents, or other task-specific context, as in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This motivates examining whether contextual conditioning mitigates memorization or merely changes the set of memorized samples that become extractable. We investigate this issue through paired item-level measurements of probabilistic suffix extraction. For each prefix-suffix pair, we score the target suffix under an empty prompt and under retrieved contexts of varying relevance, across three open-weight instruction-tuned models. We find that context does not simply erase memorization. Instead, extractable memorization consists of a context-robust core and a context-sensitive boundary. Many samples that are extractable without context remain extractable under the retrieved context, especially as the prefix length increases. At the same time, context mainly affects marginal samples near the extraction threshold: it suppresses some exposures, but also enables new ones that are missed by prefix-only evaluation. These findings qualify the view that RAG reduces memorization risk. Context can lower aggregate extraction by suppressing boundary cases, yet robustly extractable samples persist, and context-enabled extractability remains security-relevant.
[AI-35] Structure Tax: How Structured Output affects LLM s Performance AACL
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12056
作者: Vineet Kumar,Kanishka,Bhuvanesh Mandora
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: AACL IJCNLP 2026 (Main)
Abstract:Deploying large language models in production often requires constraining outputs to structured formats such as JSON or XML, and prior work treats the resulting accuracy loss as an inherent structure tax'. We re-examine this claim by evaluating a battery of models, datasets and schemas, measuring task accuracy, confidence calibration, and hidden-state geometry. The tax turns out to depend on schema design rather than on structure per se: reasoning-first field ordering matches or exceeds free-form accuracy, while answer-first ordering causes steep drops, particularly in smaller models. Format sensitivity scales inversely with a task's own structural constraints, and schemas that preserve reasoning order also improve calibration with CKA showing greater separability between correct and incorrect representations in middle transformer layers. Our findings indicate that properly designed structured formats can match or exceed free-form performance, reframing the critical question from whether to structure’ to `how to structure’ for optimal reasoning preservation.
[AI-36] MPGE: A Multi-Perspective Graph Explainer for Molecular Classification Explanation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12039
作者: Mahtab Sarvmaili
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Graph neural networks (GNNs) predict molecular properties from chemical graph data, but predictive accuracy does not explain how graph information supports an individual decision. A compact prediction-preserving rationale does not necessarily reveal which changes reverse the decision or which modifications the model tolerates. We propose the Multi-Perspective Graph Explainer (MPGE), unifying factual support, counterfactual sensitivity, and exemplar tolerance for a frozen classifier. The factual view, originally termed prototype (PT), seeks a compact retained edge set with the same label and required confidence. Counterfactual (CF) explanations seek bounded prediction-changing deletions; exemplar (EXE) explanations seek non-trivial bounded deletions that preserve the label and confidence. A shared constrained formulation connects prediction behavior, compactness, and edit cost, while separate objectives generate the three views. Our graph-classification extension of CF-GNNExplainer learns symmetric edge rankings and verifies discrete candidates, recording unsuccessful searches. A separate BBBP fragment backend returns RDKit-sanitized molecules. We evaluate the primary GCN implementation on MUTAG, Mutagenicity, AIDS, COX2_MD, and BBBP using semantic coverage, conditional quality, stability, and runtime. Successful factual masks retained 8.6%–15.5% of input edges on average across datasets; bounded counterfactual coverage was 4.8%–67.6%, and exemplar preservation coverage was 98.9%–100.0%. Exploratory controls reveal the influence of hard projection and retained node information. Quantitative comparisons and molecular visualizations characterize model support, sensitivity, and tolerance without treating them as validated chemical mechanisms.
[AI-37] raceable World State: A Provenance-Aware State Representation and Deterministic Replay Framework for Robotic Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12033
作者: Zoe Li
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
备注: 7 pages
Abstract:Robotic systems operating over extended tasks must maintain a world state assembled from observations arriving at different times, with varying confidence and potential revisions. Conventional representations emphasize latest estimates, hindering fact provenance, decision reproduction, or execution auditing. We present Traceable World State (TWS), a middleware-neutral semantic representation and reference runtime for provenance-aware robot world state. A TWS snapshot captures entities, relations, observations, confidence, and revision metadata. Validated update operations transform snapshots immutably, ordered updates support deterministic replay, and a canonical SHA-256 hash chain ensures tamper-evident logs. We evaluate TWS through schema conformance, complete state lifecycles, deterministic replay, and fault injection. Passing 38 tests across Python 3.10-3.14, the framework detects record corruptions, broken hash links, sequence discontinuities, and world mismatches. Across ten public BEHAVIOR-1K task definitions, TWS imported 153 entities and 146 relations with successful validation. On 103 NVIDIA Unitree G1 simulated trajectories containing 78,369 frames, TWS achieved exact terminal-state replay in all episodes and detected 412/412 injected corruptions with a 1.72% storage overhead over Plain JSONL.
[AI-38] Humanoid World Action Model With Joint State–Action Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12026
作者: Yan Yang,Jikun Rong,Minzhao Zhu,Zheyi Zhao,Qirui Hu,Zihan Lan,Weixin Mao,Yinhao Li,Zhen Fu,Hua Chen
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Under review. 15 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Humanoid robots are a promising platform for general-purpose manipulation. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies learn actions directly from multimodal observations, while World Action Models (WAMs) further incorporate future visual prediction to improve action generation. However, in hierarchical humanoid systems, VLA and WAM policies output reference actions that are subsequently realized through whole-body control, robot dynamics, balance, and contact. This hierarchy creates an action–execution gap: the reference produced by the policy can differ from the motion realized by the robot. Without explicitly modeling the realized body state, future visual prediction must jointly explain scene evolution and discrepancies between reference actions and executed motion, making it difficult to associate an action with its physical outcome. We propose HWAM, a Humanoid World Action Model with joint state–action generation, which makes the robot’s post-execution proprioceptive state an explicit prediction target. By jointly generating reference actions and their realized body states, HWAM directly incorporates supervision of executed motion into action learning. HWAM is trained through three complementary conditional paths. The Policy path jointly denoises state–action trajectories conditioned only on current observations, matching deployment conditions. Forward Dynamics Modeling (FDM) predicts future visual observations conditioned on actions and post-execution states, while Inverse Dynamics Modeling (IDM) reconstructs the joint trajectory from visual transitions. Together, these paths connect policy references, realized body motion, and visual outcomes. HWAM achieves the highest success rate among evaluated baselines on three real-robot tasks on the LimX OLI humanoid. On Candy Picking, HWAM achieves a 70.6% success rate, compared with 43.3% for Fast-WAM.
[AI-39] PulseBound: Future-Beat State Forecasting Under an Explicit Information Boundary
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12010
作者: Chenyang Xu,Donglin Xie,Xi Xiang,Xiaoyu Li,Yufan Lu,Jiqiun Gao,Yi Zhao,Xin-Yi Li,Guangpu Zhu,Zijian Wang,Xiwen Yang,Dezhen Wang,Lin Chen,Shenda Hong,Leilei Li
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: under review
Abstract:Predictive representation learning from photoplethysmography (PPG) can violate causal information access even with causal attention, as normalization, nonlocal transforms, or companion views may depend on withheld samples. We introduce PulseBound, a PPG representation learner combining physiologically structured future-beat prediction with an explicit stored-window information boundary. A content-independent cutoff separates the visible prefix from the prediction target. Prefix-only normalization, suffix replacement before derived-view construction, and aligned masking ensure that encoder inputs depend only on the visible prefix and cutoff. This yields stored-suffix invariance: with fixed model state, randomness, prefix, and cutoff, changing the stored suffix cannot change the forecast context. A shared horizon-conditioned head predicts nine rhythm and morphology descriptors for up to four extractor-valid future beats, using elementwise validity masks; optional ECG-derived pulse-arrival-time supervision is restricted to training. On MIMIC and VitalDB groups held out from PulseBound backbone pretraining, PulseBound reduces nine-state transformed-space MAE relative to last-visible-beat persistence by 28.06% and 22.22%, respectively, with gains in MAE, MAE-Skill, and Spearman correlation across all 40 source-cutoff-horizon cells. In a separate comparison of seven models on 13 downstream tasks, PulseBound achieves the best mean on nine frozen linear-probe and seven full-fine-tuning tasks. Stored-suffix interventions cause zero recorded changes in forecast contexts or predictions, with zero suffix-input gradients at audited precision under the stored-window interface. These findings separate three testable aspects of predictive physiological representation learning: information access, supervised future structure, and transfer.
[AI-40] Complexity of Grounded Semantics and Preferred Semantics in Finitary Argumentation Frameworks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12008
作者: Jinfan Xu,Jieting Luo
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
备注: 15 pages
Abstract:Abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) introduced by Dung provide a formal foundation for non-monotonic reasoning in artificial intelligence. While decision problems for general infinite AFs typically reside at high levels of the analytical hierarchy ( \Sigma_1^1 or \Pi_1^1 ), restricting the framework to be computably finitary reduces some of the complexity to the arithmetical hierarchy. In this paper, we present a complexity mapping of grounded and preferred semantics in computably finitary AFs across standard decision problems: credulous acceptance ( \Cred ), skeptical acceptance ( \Skep ), extension existence ( \Ex ), uniqueness ( \Uni ), and non-empty existence ( \NE ). For grounded semantics, credulous and skeptical acceptance are already known to be \Sigma_1^0 -complete. We show that non-empty existence is also \Sigma_1^0 -complete, whereas existence and uniqueness are trivial. These classifications are understood within the domain of valid computably finitary representations. For preferred semantics, using a computably finitely branching computation tree, \Cred_\pref is shown to be in \Pi_1^0 -c and \NE_\pref is \Sigma_2^0 -c. However, it is insufficient to reduce universal quantification and global uniqueness, leaving \Skep_\pref in \Pi_1^1 and \UniPref in \Sigma_2^1 -c. Our results show the precise boundary where finitarity succeeds to bring reasoning down to the arithmetical hierarchy and where second-order quantification forces problems back into the analytical hierarchy.
[AI-41] REACT: Rolling Denoising and Dual Decoupling for Reactive Robot Control with VLA Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12007
作者: Houlong Xiong,Zhenqi Qiu,Zechen Wang,Suohang Zhang,Yiyu Ren,Wanting Xu,Hongfei Niu,Chengyang He,Ge Sun,Ran Cheng,Qian Zhu
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to CoRL 2026 as Spotlight. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Flow-based vision-language-action (VLA) models generate action chunks for temporally coherent robot motion, but chunked control creates a fundamental closed-loop trade-off: long chunks provide smooth execution, whereas frequent replanning improves reactivity at the cost of action discontinuities. We introduce REACT, a rolling-denoising framework that makes flow-based VLAs more reactive while preserving long-horizon context. Instead of regenerating entire action chunks from scratch, REACT maintains a persistent action buffer with staggered flow timesteps. At each control step, the full horizon is denoised using the latest observation, the cleanest action block is executed, partially refined future blocks are shifted forward, and fresh noise is appended to the tail. As a result, each executed action block is refined across multiple recent observations before deployment. To support real-time control, we further introduce dual decoupling, which separates sensing, VLM encoding, DiT denoising, and action execution, enabling high-frequency observation updates and action streaming under practical compute constraints. Across the RoboTwin 2.0 simulation benchmark and real-world tasks spanning bimanual manipulation and dynamic control on multiple robot platforms, REACT improves task success and reduces reaction latency while producing smoother trajectories than frequent-replanning and asynchronous baselines.
[AI-42] he Polytopal Neural Network
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12004
作者: A. Emilie J. Wedenborg,Anders V. Nørskov,Teresa Dorszewski,Kristoffer Wickstrøm,Morten Mørup
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Understanding how deep neural networks process information remains a central challenge. Existing interpretability methods often compromise structural fidelity, rely on prespecified corpora, or explain models post-hoc. We propose Polytopal Neural Networks (PNNs), a framework that extracts distinct layer-wise aspects by enforcing a polytope-based structure that is used directly in subsequent information processing. We scale our approach using learned corpus representations and an amortized simplex inference procedure and highlight how the framework also gives a direct route to vector quantized (VQ) training. In PNNs, observations are explicitly described by their alignment with layer-specific aspects. Empirical results show that imposing polytopal constraints on neural network representations preserves meaningful structures in the latent space with minimal degradation in performance, favorable compressed representations when compared to VQ representations in unsupervised learning, while also providing a performant new approach to VQ deep learning training. Our findings suggest that deep networks can enforce interpretable polytope-based representations, offering a principled path toward more transparent AI systems with minimal performance compromise.
[AI-43] An Interpretable Approach to PDE Solution Discovery via Structural Experience Distillation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12003
作者: Yunpeng Gong,Huolong Wu,Can Yang,Min Jiang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Submitted for review
Abstract:PDE solution discovery aims to identify explicit symbolic expressions for unknown physical fields from observations under known physical constraints. Existing methods, however, collapse data fidelity and physical consistency into a single terminal score used as the sole feedback signal, providing little information about which subexpressions are responsible for a candidate’s final performance. This opaque terminal feedback severely limits the interpretability of the search process itself, offering no insight into why a candidate succeeds or fails. Consequently, reusable structures in otherwise suboptimal candidates are often discarded, whereas incidental syntax along successful search trajectories may be repeatedly reinforced. We propose SED-MCTS, a Monte Carlo tree search approach that distills structural experience from evaluated expressions and reuses it to guide subsequent symbolic solution search. Through counterfactual subtree interventions, SED-MCTS estimates local structural contributions, routes reliable evidence to the responsible construction edges, and preserves useful components in a refined structural archive. The approach naturally extends to coupled multiphysics systems. Across a diverse suite of PDE benchmarks, SED-MCTS achieves strong performance under a fixed evaluation budget and improves search efficiency and robustness under noisy or scarce observations.
[AI-44] Neural Network Verification for Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11994
作者: Thanh Le,Hai Duong,Takeshi Matsumura,ThanhVu Nguyen
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) transmits data end-to-end over wireless channels using a neural encoder-decoder, but reconstruction quality can degrade sharply under adversarial perturbations and channel disturbances; no method formally bounds this degradation for DeepJSCC. We present the first bound-propagation framework for verifying DeepJSCC’s decoder, bounding worst-case reconstruction error over a given wireless channel’s noise region. Current deep neural network (DNN) verifiers do not support three DeepJSCC decoder components: parametric rectified linear activations (PReLU), transposed convolutions, and Rayleigh fading. We extend state-of-the-art techniques for optimization of linear relaxation in DNN verification for PReLU, replace the transposed convolution with its restricted upsample-then-convolution form, and formulate Rayleigh fading as a structural perturbation prepended directly into the decoder, thereby reducing the dimensionality of the verification problem. We also instantiate Lipschitz-regularized global robustness training, denoted GloRo, improving global robustness and enabling tight certification of DeepJSCC models for the first time. On DeepJSCC model for image transmission, this global robustness training procedure combined with structural encoding lowers the median certified bound by up to 41% and certifies about ten times more safe cases (192 against 19) than GloRo with interval encoding at a 10-degree error in channel estimation. Over-the-air validation with an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) implementation on software-defined radio devices confirm the certificate holds on real hardware, with a worst observed error on radio link at 0.082 against a certified bound of 0.128.
[AI-45] MetaOPD: Meta-Learned Token Weighting for On-Policy Distillation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11989
作者: Zipeng Wang,Xinpeng Dong,Yuefan Wang,Pingchen Lu,Xian Wei,Kun Kuang,Fei Wu,Zhongxiang Dai,Min Zhang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注:
Abstract:On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using token-level teacher supervision. However, uniform weighting overlooks differences in token learning value, while existing weighting methods rely on predefined mappings from prediction signals to token weights. These mappings are not learned from the effectiveness of the resulting student updates, limiting their ability to adapt to evolving learning needs. In this paper, we propose MetaOPD, a bilevel optimization framework that jointly learns the student model and a lightweight token-weighting network. The inner objective updates the student through weighted OPD, while the outer objective optimizes the weighting network using validation loss on reference solutions after a virtual student update. Differentiating through this update connects weighting decisions to their effects on post-update performance, allowing the mapping from prediction signals to token weights to evolve alongside the student. Experiments on six mathematical reasoning and three out-of-domain datasets, covering two student scales and seven baselines, demonstrate the effectiveness of MetaOPD, with Avg@8/Pass@8 gains over OPD of 1.99/5.97 percentage points for the 0.6B student and 2.25/6.41 points for the 1.7B student.
[AI-46] Can LLM s Fix It Without Code? Toward Automated Verification of No-Code Bug Fixes
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11963
作者: Utku Boran Torun,Veli Karakaya,Eray Tüzün
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注:
Abstract:A no-code fix resolves an invalid bug report by directing the user to change a setting, update to a version where the problem is already fixed, or adjust their workflow. Manually verifying whether a proposed no-code fix resolves the reported bug takes considerable developer time. This study proposes an automated, execution-based pipeline for evaluating the capability of large language models (LLMs) to generate no-code fixes in a real browser environment. We evaluate 322 no-code fixes generated by the 12 configurations released with the benchmark of a previous study, covering bug reports categorized as Faulty Configuration, Wrong Version, or External System Dependency. An executor agent applies each fix by following its natural-language instructions, and an issue-specific checker determines whether the reported bug persists. We repeat the pipeline with three executors: two Computer-Use Agents, OpenCUA-72B and Claude Sonnet 5, and one multimodal agentic LLM, Meta’s Muse Glimmer. Only 17.6% of the candidate issues could be set up and passed both sanity gates. Across the 322 fixes, 14.6% to 49.7% resolved the bug depending on the executor, and the strongest configuration, Claude Opus 4.6 in the Vanilla pipeline, resolved up to 74.1% of its fixes under Claude Sonnet 5. Changing only the executor shifted a configuration’s resolution rate by 38.8% on average, and the three executors reached the same verdict on only 46.9% of the fixes. Compared with human execution, the executors matched the human consensus for 66.1% to 88.1% of the sampled fixes. Even under the best executor, fewer than half of the LLM-generated no-code fixes resolve the reported bug, so such fixes need verification before they reach users. Execution-based verification can provide this, but the measured capability depends strongly on the executor, which evaluations must report and control.
[AI-47] Stochastic Grouping Conformal Prediction for Effective Subgroup Reliability
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11957
作者: Meihui Zhong,Wenxin Tai,Ting Zhong,Fan Zhou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 9 pages
Abstract:Conformal prediction offers a distribution-free coverage guarantee, making it especially attractive for clinical applications. Standard conformal prediction, however, provides such guarantees only at the population level, and its prediction sets can exhibit coverage disparities across clinically important subgroups. A natural remedy is to calibrate within predefined groups. However, this can require access to sensitive subgroup attributes and is prone to a worst-group bottleneck: protecting the most difficult subgroup can inflate prediction sets for all, increasing cognitive burden on decision makers. To this end, we propose Stochastic Grouping Conformal Prediction (SGCP), a conformal framework for subgroup-reliable uncertainty quantification. It learns a stochastic grouping map that allows each sample to draw calibration information from others with similar calibration behavior, yielding a local score law that boosts reliability across subpopulations. We prove that SGCP retains the standard coverage guarantee. Experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks show that it consistently reduces subgroup coverage gaps while achieving smaller or comparable prediction set sizes relative to existing baselines.
[AI-48] Evaluating Exact Output and Checkpoint-State Prediction in Real Programs NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11889
作者: Xiaohong Chen,David Bucur,Chenglong Ma,Yi Zhang,Lingming Zhang,Sriram Vishwanath,Grigore Rosu
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 15 pages. Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI for Verifiable Coding. Includes appendices
Abstract:We present a benchmark for predicting final output and checkpoint state from source and input alone. It extends CRUXEval-style output prediction with paired shorter- and longer-trace inputs and checkpoints inside and after a loop. The benchmark contains 400 cases from 371 Python and C++ programs, evaluated under seven settings from four model families without tools or code execution. Of 11,200 planned predictions, 11,151 produced gradable responses. Reasoning-enabled settings outperform their off counterparts by 33.1 to 55.2 percentage points on completed responses. The strongest setting scores 93.0% on shorter-trace final output, 77.0% on longer-trace final output, and 65.5% and 63.5% on the two state tasks; these scores also hold when missing responses count as wrong. Across 2,397 matched Python comparisons with identical source, changing to the longer-trace input yields 528 correct-to-wrong changes and 147 reversals. Source-clustered analyses preserve this accuracy gap, while adjusted Python models give no evidence of a positive incremental association between cumulative state load and error. Changed inputs and checkpoint tasks alter several factors together, so the gaps do not isolate trace length or an internal state-tracking mechanism. The benchmark exposes errors hidden by short-output scores alone.
[AI-49] How Is Automated Research Evaluated? A Survey of Benchmarks and Evaluation Practices AACL
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11877
作者: Liulei Zhang,Dejing Zhou,Chuyue Huang,Guanhua Chen,Yutong Yao,Lidia S. Chao,Chi Man Vong,Derek F. Wong
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to Findings of AACL-IJCNLP 2026
Abstract:Automated research systems support literature synthesis, ideation, experiments, writing, and peer review, but their evaluation is dispersed across tasks, benchmarks, and studies that are difficult to compare directly. We review this literature from the perspective of evaluation design and evidence, covering six targets: literature synthesis, research ideation, executable workflows, scholarly writing and communication, automatic peer review, and end-to-end research. We compare task construction, evidence sources, evaluators, and scoring procedures to explain the capabilities assessed by different designs. Our synthesis highlights three recurring lessons: output checks, process checks, and human studies provide complementary information; evaluator calibration is specific to the property being assessed; and resource budgets and attempt selection are integral to interpreting performance comparisons. We identify diagnostic evaluation designs and documented gaps in supporting evidence, and translate these comparisons into reporting and audit recommendations for specific evaluation settings. The survey helps readers navigate existing evaluations, select appropriate benchmarks, and design subsequent studies.
[AI-50] LEVER: Adaptive Cost-Aware Proof Search Over AND/OR Graphs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11862
作者: Nihal Jain,Shuangjie Yao,Begum Cicekdag,Zhuo Zhang,Suman Jana
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Mathematicians value proofs for more than correctness: among correct proofs, simplicity, purity and the computational cost of finding them vary widely. Yet LLM-powered theorem provers largely search for any correct proof, and improve its quality only after it is found. We propose LEVER, a proof search algorithm that makes the objective over correct proofs programmable and optimizes it during search. LEVER scores partial proofs over an AND/OR proof graph, combining realized objective values with predictions for open subgoals, so the objective guides search before a proof is complete. The same mechanism optimizes computational cost, proof length, topical impurity, and even their weighted combinations, while the Lean kernel enforces correctness. On PutnamBench in Lean 4, under matched budgets, LEVER costs 34% less than a strong single-conversation agent while raising the solve rate from 80% to 96%. On reducing topical impurity, i.e., how far a proof strays from its theorem’s subject, it improves over post-hoc refactoring (42% reduction against 33%) at two-thirds of the cost and more reliably; on proof length, the metric refactoring is built for, it approaches refactoring. Varying the objective’s weights traces a quality-cost trade-off curve, so the user can choose how much a better proof is worth. Overall, LEVER is a performant, cost-efficient and tunable proof search algorithm for navigating the space of correct proofs.
[AI-51] rajectory-Guided Fault Localization for Agent Skill Evolution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11858
作者: Yu Ge,Linna Xie,Zhong Li,Yu Pei,Tian Zhang
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 20 pages, 3 figures
Abstract:Agent skills provide reusable guidance for code agents, but incomplete or unsuitable guidance can impair task execution. To reduce the manual effort of skill refinement, recent approaches use LLMs to generate revisions from execution feedback. However, grounding these revisions in explicit behavioral evidence remains challenging. To address this gap, we propose SkillMorph, a skill-evolution approach based on trajectory-guided fault localization in agent skills. Its core idea is to link execution evidence to specific skill contents before generating revisions. Specifically, SkillMorph compares failure and success evidence in abstracted trajectories across repeated runs and tasks, incorporating changes between evolution loops to identify suspicious actions. It then uses these suspicious actions to localize edit sites in the skills and generate corresponding revisions. Experiments on SWE-Skills-Bench and CannBot show that the skills evolved by SkillMorph consistently achieve higher trial-level accuracy and execution consistency than the original skills and those from four existing skill-evolution methods. We have also applied SkillMorph to automated kernel generation with an AI operator-development team, which has accepted 6 skill-revision pull requests.
[AI-52] Probability-Signature Dynamics: Unpacking Modular Addition Learning Within Two-Layer Networks ICLR2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11833
作者: Yunji Wang,Junjie Yao,Linyu Liu,Pinyan Lu,Zhi-Qin John Xu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 36 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to ICLR 2027
Abstract:Neural networks trained on modular addition tasks often develop Fourier-structured representations that support exact generalization. While prior work has identified these Fourier circuits, the mechanism by which gradient-based training selects them from the data distribution remains unclear. We address this question using probability signatures, which express leading gradient interactions through conditional statistics of the training distribution. For modular addition, these signatures are cyclic shift operators and are diagonalized by the discrete Fourier transform, yielding approximately decoupled Fourier-mode dynamics. This explains the emergence of Fourier sparsity, frequency matching, and phase alignment. The same framework resolves a puzzle under label noise: corrupted examples can show faster early loss decrease than clean examples, despite lacking a coherent generalization rule. We show that noise increases conditional label collisions, strengthening early shared-coordinate reinforcement. Finally, this method can be applied to other operators. Taking XOR as an example, we observed the predicted frequency in experiments.
[AI-53] AuraLuxMuse: Adaptive Fusion Modeling for Aesthetic Stage Lighting Design with Music and Expert Guidance SIGGRAPH
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11792
作者: Junyu Deng,Jiale Cao,Mengtian Li,Zhongxia Ji,Ruhua Chen,Yiyi He,Guangnan Ye,Zuo Hu
类目: Multimedia (cs.MM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to appear in SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Conference Papers
Abstract:We present AuraLuxMuse, a novel system for automated aesthetic stage lighting design that integrates expert knowledge, representation learning, and preference-adaptive modeling. Lighting design in live performance settings requires the seamless translation of musical features into dynamic lighting behaviors. However, traditional workflows remain time-consuming, labor-intensive, and difficult to transfer. AuraLuxMuse encodes music and professional cue sequences into a shared retrieval space, estimates cue-event density, and retargets selected fixture commands to the destination stage. It assists pre-production authoring by returning editable cues rather than replacing the designer with an unconstrained generator. At the heart of AuraLuxMuse are two key modules: Lighting-Aligned Music Pretraining (LAMP), which performs contrastive learning between audio and lighting cues for alignment, and Preference-Adaptive Mixture of Experts (PAMoE), which conditions preference-aware cue retrieval and adaptation on designers’ intent through a gated ensemble of style-specific expert networks. To support training and evaluation, we introduce Musilux, the first dataset of paired musical audio and professional lighting cue sequences under diverse performance scenarios. We evaluate AuraLuxMuse across both virtual simulation environments and professional-grade laboratories. Experimental results, including objective and subjective evaluation, demonstrate that AuraLuxMuse retrieves and adapts stage-lighting cues that are visually cohesive, semantically meaningful, and artistically expressive, showing its potential for AI-assisted aesthetic stage design.
[AI-54] Safe Actions Alone Do Not Ensure Safe Agents : Identifying Unfulfilled Obligations with Guard Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11773
作者: Youwei Feng,Yitong Zhang,Yuetong Liu,Jia Li
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 21 pages. Code, data, and supplementary materials: this https URL
Abstract:Guard models are increasingly used to safeguard LLM-based agents, primarily by identifying actions that agents are forbidden to perform. However, identifying forbidden actions alone is insufficient to ensure agent safety. In this paper, we argue that agent safety also depends on identifying required yet unperformed safety-critical actions, which we call obligations. Our preliminary study on a popular benchmark for evaluating safety shows that 56.92% of GLM-5.3 trajectories contain unfulfilled obligations, compared with only 30.00% containing forbidden actions. This finding reveals unfulfilled obligations as a major and previously overlooked source of safety risk. However, to our knowledge, no existing benchmark evaluates whether guard models can identify these obligations. To close this gap, we introduce ObligationBench, the first benchmark for evaluating the capability of obligation identification, comprising 240 expert-validated trajectories covering issue resolution, feature development, and terminal operations. Our evaluation of 14 representative models reveals substantial limitations: the highest recall and exact-match rate are only 48.97% and 10.00%, respectively. To address these limitations, we develop ObligationGuard using 40,000 synthetic training examples. ObligationGuard achieves 57.52% recall and an exact-match rate of 21.67%, surpassing all evaluated models on both metrics. We call on the community to incorporate obligation identification into the design and evaluation of future guard models to improve agent safety.
[AI-55] Narrow and Deep: An Ontology Tower as the Knowledge of an LLM Agent for an Industrial Equipment System
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11768
作者: Younghwan Joo,Sung-il Kim
类目: ystems and Control (eess.SY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 28 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
Abstract:Large language model (LLM) agents are beginning to operate industrial energy equipment, and what they get right depends on what they are told about the plant. Established building ontologies name many kinds of points across many sites, whereas an industrial equipment system needs few entities with much knowledge about each. This study proposes the ontology tower, a narrow-and-deep ontology of a single equipment system whose knowledge deepens in two ways: through quantities derived from the measured points by physical relations, and through lessons from the operating journal incorporated as knowledge nodes. On a real low-humidity air-handling test plant operated daily through a programmable logic controller, agents received a text projected from its tower in a preregistered evaluation of nine tasks replayed from the plant’s records, using four open-weight models from 9 to about 750 billion parameters. This knowledge raised the rate at which the agents avoided the most plausible misjudgment of each task by about 20 percentage points, and the overall task score of the 9-billion-parameter model as much as that of the largest. Operating lessons were used when incorporated into the tower or placed in the prompt as records, but seldom when left in the journal behind a search tool. In live runs through an invariant safety layer, the agents brought the controlled variable into its target band in 12 of 14 runs. An ontology narrow in entities but deep in what is known about them can thus supply the knowledge that an agent for an industrial equipment system needs.
[AI-56] What Output-Only Review Cannot Verify: Study Contracts for Research Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11754
作者: Eitan Waks,Ben Glocker
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 15 pages, 4 tables. Preprint. Not peer reviewed. Companion manuscripts prepared in parallel
Abstract:Some defects in an AI-generated study can be identified from its artifacts; others require knowledge of what was approved before execution. We propose study contracts that bind declared experimental choices, run obligations and claim scope to recorded execution evidence, and distinguish this contract-relative verification from scientific truth. A diagnostic using eight self-authored clean/mutated pairs illustrates the information boundary. A deterministic checker applying a registered, fault-specific rule to approved and executed objects detected all eight registered mutations. Across eighteen recorded judge aliases given individual metadata-filtered packages without pair context or the registry-selected fault label, 104 of 144 mutated evaluation cases received defect flags; the remaining cases comprised 32 abstentions and eight terminal failures, with no explicit clean decisions on mutated cases. Some packages retained approval and execution fields, including digests. The prompt instructed judges to abstain when evidence was insufficient. These results characterize a deliberately information-asymmetric development setting; they do not isolate the effect of authoritative information from differences in task specification and rule selection, and they are not comparative verifier quality or agent reward hacking. We identify full-information comparisons, legitimate-adaptation controls and closed-loop agent evaluations as necessary tests of whether contract checks improve useful compliant completion under optimization.
[AI-57] Where Draft Trees Lose Target Mass: Exit-Guided Speculative Decoding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11750
作者: Shijing Hu,Xuancheng Ren,Zhihui Lu,Pan Zhou
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Tree-based speculative decoding verifies multiple draft continuations in one target-model pass, but finite trees built from draft scores face a fundamental draft-target mismatch. We ask whether better exact verification can increase acceptance on a fixed tree and how target feedback can improve the tree itself. Through a target-flow view, we identify a canonical exit law and prove that one plus target coverage sharply bounds the expected output-block length, including the bonus token, of any exact path verifier. All optimal verifiers share the same exit and bonus-token law, already attained by representative predraw-and-follow and sequential residual verifiers. This yields Tree Exit Verification (TEV), an exact, level-parallel procedure using one exit-node decision and one bonus-token decision. The exit law also identifies missing target probability, providing node-level feedback for Exit-Guided Draft-Tree Training (ExitTrain) on inference-time draft trees. Experiments across dialogue, code, and mathematical reasoning validate fixed-tree equivalence: ExitTrain increases average output-block length by 13%, while TEV reduces verifier-stage latency by 15%, yielding a 14% end-to-end speedup over DDTree. Our results distinguish two opportunities: better draft trees for higher acceptance and more direct verification for lower latency. Code: this https URL.
[AI-58] DEX: Digit-Level Early Exit for Energy-Efficient MSDF Neural Network Inference
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11748
作者: Yousef Sadegheih,Dorit Merhof,Muhammad Usman
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:U-Net inference for brain-tumor segmentation requires billions of multiply-accumulate operations, motivating hardware that can reduce computation dynamically rather than relying only on fixed precision or static model compression. Most-significant-digit-first (MSDF) arithmetic exposes the leading digits of a result during computation, enabling output-dependent decisions before the full value is generated. This paper presents an MSDF accelerator for quantized U-Net segmentation with a two-stage grouped processing element supporting signed INT8 operands and in-stream bias accumulation. Four runtime mechanisms operate directly on the output digit stream: exact early negative detection (END) in ReLU layers, exact sign-only decision making in the segmentation head, calibrated low-order-digit skipping, and calibrated pruning. The two approximate mechanisms are selected offline under an accuracy constraint, while execution requires only lightweight control and does not modify the stored weights. On a residual U-Net trained with nnU-Net for BraTS, the proposed mechanisms reduce digit cycles by 38.38% while achieving a mean Dice score of 80.58% on 73 held-out cases, compared with 81.20% for the floating-point model; the exact mechanisms alone reduce cycles by 18.79% without altering the quantized output. Synthesized in 45~nm, the processing element operates at 500~MHz, occupies 0.858~mm ^2 , and consumes 0.726~mJ per 192\times192 patch under switching-activity-annotated power analysis. A projected eight-output accelerator with shared activation delivery achieves 16.6~ms latency and 1.67~mJ per patch.
[AI-59] Scalable AI Uncertainty Quantification via Generalized Laplace Active Subspaces
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11738
作者: Wouter N. Edeling,Peter V. Coveney
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying neural networks in scientific and high-stakes applications, but full Bayesian inference over the network parameters is computationally infeasible. We propose a low-rank generalized Laplace approximation for neural-network UQ based on a small number of data-informed curvature directions. Starting from a generalized Bayesian posterior defined through an empirical loss, we construct a local Gaussian approximation around a pretrained set of weights in this active curvature subspace. The posterior variances in the retained subspace are available in closed form, and the prior variance is calibrated by an empirical Bayes procedure. The generalized Bayesian formulation allows us to compare two posterior scalings: the standard Bayesian scaling associated with the summed negative log likelihood, and a mean-loss scaling in which the empirical loss is normalized by the number of data. A central finding is that the standard scaling induces a data-size dependent contraction of the posterior variance in the leading active directions. In regression problems, this can force the low-rank framework to retain additional weak-curvature directions in order to achieve nominal coverage of calibration data. When posterior samples are propagated through the non-linear network, these additional directions can degrade the coherence of the predictive intervals and shift the posterior predictive mean away from the pretrained model. In contrast, the generalized mean-loss scaling yields a more stable, lower dimensional active subspace and produces calibrated, coherent predictive confidence intervals. These results indicate that generalized Laplace active subspaces provide a practical and scalable route to calibrated uncertainty quantification in neural networks.
[AI-60] Uncovering and Fixing Collider Bias in Bayesian PINNs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11737
作者: Michael Obermayr,Robert Peharz
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Bayesian physics-informed neural networks (B-PINNs) are a popular framework for parameter and state inference from sparse or noisy observations. They are commonly formulated via a collider structure, in which physical and trajectory parameters are assumed to be a priori independent and become coupled through virtual likelihoods on differential-equation residuals that enforce physical consistency. We show that this modeling choice can induce severe systematic bias in the posterior over physical parameters: even when the prior is favorably centered on the ground-truth parameters, the resulting posterior can drift away and concentrate far from them. As a remedy, we advocate a hierarchical chain model in which physics generates trajectories, which in turn generate observations. The chain model does not suffer from this posterior bias, but it poses a harder, so-called doubly intractable, inference problem due to a physics-dependent normalization constant. This challenge can be resolved by discretizing the underlying stochastic dynamics, after which the chain posterior can be sampled exactly with particle MCMC. We identify two distinct mechanisms characterizing the collider bias, derive analytical approximations of their magnitudes, and establish diagnostic criteria for predicting when standard B-PINNs remain reliable. Experiments confirm the predicted bias and show that the chain formulation successfully avoids it.
[AI-61] mer-M1: A Multivariate Time Series Foundation Model via Learning Primitives
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11734
作者: Haoran Zhang,Haixuan Liu,Xingjian Su,Yong Liu,Zhi Chen,Yuxuan Wang,Jianmin Wang,Mingsheng Long
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:We introduce Timer-M1, a pretrained multivariate time series foundation model that learns with primitives for zero-shot forecasting. Across domains, time series share elementary temporal and relational patterns, termed primitives, yet differ in how these primitives manifest and evolve across different contexts. Despite progress in zero-shot and task-general forecasting, existing foundation models may still struggle to generalize to complex real-world scenarios. To this end, we develop a primitive-based data synthesis and pretraining pipeline. The synthesis pipeline generates series with temporal primitives shared across domains and then assembles real and generated series into multivariate samples using relational primitives. Afterwards, samples are organized into episodes by assigning distinct channel roles as target variates, past-only covariates, and known-future covariates, ensuring that the model is optimized on predictable variates using available exogenous information. Technically, Timer-M1 further adapts gated two-dimensional Transformer blocks that dynamically allocate cross-variate attention across layers. Across three large-scale forecasting benchmarks, Timer-M1 ranks first on both FEV and TIME and second on GIFT-Eval among most recent time series foundation models. These results support effective primitive-based pretraining as a route to robust general forecasting technique across domains and task settings.
[AI-62] MemTrial: Learning When to Trust Memory in LLM Portfolio Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11732
作者: Guanghao Wu,Zhuo Cai,Shoujin Wang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language model (LLM) agents for portfolio management learn from experience: they credit each experience in their memory with the outcome of the decisions that used it. In financial markets, however, this outcome mostly reflects the market move shared by all decisions on that date, so the credit tracks the market rather than the experience, and these agents often do worse than simply holding the equal-weight (1/ N ) portfolio. We ask how an agent can credit an experience with what it changes, and answer it by putting memory on trial: drafts of the same decision with and without an experience face the same market, so the outcome they share cancels in their difference. Our agent, MemTrial, drafts each decision with eight combinations of its retrieved experiences, chosen by a fractional factorial design, and credits each experience with its Banzhaf value, the average of these differences. As each date occurs once and each draft is a noisy LLM sample, these credits are noisy and may not hold on new dates. MemTrial therefore pools them across dates and similar experiences with a hierarchical Bayesian model, acts on them only after they have predicted unseen dates, and otherwise stays anchored at a conservative reference such as 1/ N . On four benchmarks, MemTrial not only benefits from experiences that matter (the best of 15 methods on a semi-synthetic benchmark with known experience quality) but also limits its losses when its values do not hold (at most 2.2% below 1/ N on PortBench and InvestorBench, against 15–38% for the best experience-learning agent). Averaged over five settings, it improves the utility of the best experience-learning agent by 21.2%, and with eight LLMs it beats every LLM-based baseline on InvestorBench.
[AI-63] MAP4CS: A Multi-dimensional Data Pruning Framework for Efficient Code Retriever Fine-tuning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11727
作者: Yuxuan Chen,Mingwei Liu,Guangsheng Ou,Zekai Zhang,Zike Li,Yanlin Wang,Pelin Zheng
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone in software engineering for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with domain-specific knowledge. However, adapting retrievers to evolving code repositories remains challenging due to the noise and redundancy inherent in massive code corpora. Standard fine-tuning on the full corpus is computationally expensive and often leads to sub-optimal performance due to negative transfer from low-quality samples. Conversely, simple random sampling fails to guarantee data representativeness. To address these challenges, we propose MAP4CS (Multi-dimensional Awareness Pruning for Code Search), an adaptive data pruning framework. MAP4CS identifies a small, high-quality core subset by integrating syntactic structure, semantic diversity, and distributional representation, followed by a rigorous rule-based filtering pipeline. Extensive experiments on two large-scale datasets demonstrate that MAP4CS consistently outperforms random sampling baselines using only 5% of the training data. Remarkably, it achieves performance comparable to, or even superior to, fine-tuning on the full dataset, validating the ‘‘less is more’’ hypothesis in data-centric AI. Furthermore, linguistic analysis reveals an adaptive optimization mechanism: MAP4CS automatically functions as a de-duplicator for redundant corpora and a denoiser for chaotic ones, constructing a training corpus that is both lexically diverse and information-dense. Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11727 [cs.SE] (or arXiv:2610.11727v1 [cs.SE] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11727 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-64] DeltaReplay: Task-Relative Memory Reuse for Mobile GUI Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11707
作者: Yudong Bai,Yihong Chen,Quanming Yao,Yaqing Wang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 22 pages
Abstract:Memory-augmented mobile GUI agents store successful execution trajectories and reuse them in later tasks, but a stored trajectory rarely matches a new task exactly. The new task may use different parameters, share only some of its steps with a stored trajectory, or have no relevant record in memory. Forcing the agent to use irrelevant memory can mislead it, whereas discarding memory that may still be useful deprives it of guidance from past experience. To address this dilemma, we propose DeltaReplay, a step-level memory reuse framework that decides how to use existing memory without modifying it. We observe that the reusable part of a stored record is determined not by the record itself but by its relation to the new task, mainly through two factors: page-level consistency and action-level generality. We therefore store execution trajectories as paths in a transition graph, whose nodes (pages) and edges (actions between pages) capture these two factors. At reuse time, the action on each edge is split into a task-independent operation and task-specific parameters. DeltaReplay then compares each recorded step with the new task and the current screen, and decides whether to follow it, execute it after replacing its parameters, or leave it to the base agent. On AndroidWorld and SPA-Bench, DeltaReplay improves the task success rate over a base agent with the same backbone by up to 10.3 and 25.0 percentage points, respectively. These results indicate that deciding at each step how to use retrieved memory lets agents benefit even from partially matching trajectories.
[AI-65] Intervention anchors and scientific verification in synthetic vascular predictive representations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11704
作者: Lingsen You,Yujun Guo,Xinyu Zhong,Zisu Peng,Wentong Wang,Li Shen,Junbo Ge
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Technical Note; 18 pages, 8 figures; reproducibility source and data archive included
Abstract:Complete orthogonal predictive coordinates do not by themselves bind a latent direction to a named intervention. We present a mathematical and synthetic audit motivated by vascular device-vessel suitcordance. Capacity-matched least-squares predictors were exactly equivalent under complete fixed output transforms, whereas an anchor-only observer recovered interpretations only within the span of known perturbation signatures. Six three-dimensional configurations across 64 seeds gave a maximum paired prediction discrepancy of 6.7e-15 but a median untransported edit error of 1.513. Coordinate transport removed that error. Noisy and weak anchors constrained calibration stability, and changing the representation basis required recalibration or verified transport. Across 256 additional fits in dimensions 3-24, prediction equivalence persisted within 4.0e-15. We then evaluated nine deliberate runnable fault classes across 64 seeds. All 576 faulty executions completed, but each violated at least one reconstruction, prediction, delivered-edit or scope contract; all 320 valid control records passed. Repeating a faulty implementation gave exact self-agreement despite error against the separately computed simulator expectation. For one omitted-direction defect, probe coverage followed its analytic law, and rank-aware abstention protected unsupported interpretations. Scalar-noise experiments exposed both missed weak faults and excessive rejection under narrow relative tolerances. These controls provide an executable separation of prediction, semantic support and scientific acceptance. They are synthetic numerical audits, not clinical validation, neural JEPA-Anything replication, agent learning or patient treatment-effect estimation.
[AI-66] A 3D Characterization Framework for Intelligent Sequential Decision Making
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11696
作者: Sadig Gojayev,Carolina Fortuna
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Puzzles are widely used to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for sequential decision making, yet approaches originating from different paradigms are rarely compared under unified conditions. To address this gap, we introduce a three-dimensional characterization framework that enables the analysts of AI methods by 1) projecting them to the Markov decision process (MDP) sequential decision making formalism, 2) degree of autonomy through human prior ranking of their designs and, 3) skill and computational cost. Using this framework, we analyze how representative graph-based, reinforcement learning, and large language model (LLM)-based approaches differ in their design choices and performance characteristics, instantiated respectively by Neurosolver, forward-backward reinforcement learning (FBRL), and automated thought-of-search (AutoToS), including a double-agent extension of thought-of-search (DA-ToS). The analysis relies on the Tower of Hanoi puzzle that provides a controlled benchmark with well-defined rules and scalable complexity, enabling consistent comparison across increasing problem sizes. The 3D characterization reveals that LLM-based methods, due to their weakly constrained action-space design, shift complexity from architecture to inference-time verification, leading to substantially higher memory and runtime costs than Neurosolver and FBRL.
[AI-67] Can Jev be Your Q or Policy in Reinforcement Learning?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11692
作者: Yi Ma,Tianpei Yang,Yaodong Yang,Weixun Wang,Hongyao Tang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Foundation models supply reinforcement learning (RL) with priors that mitigate its longstanding weaknesses in sample efficiency and transfer, but their token-by-token generation makes queries sequential and costly. Jev, a recently released decision model, generates nothing and returns calibrated, typed answers in a single forward pass. Existing work studies foundation models in RL either as models to be trained or as generators to be prompted, and Jev belongs to neither category, having so far served only as a black box in single domains. How well such a model decides on its own in RL environments, and how it can improve RL as a component of training, therefore remain unaddressed. To this end, in this paper we first examine the requirements that the objects of an RL system place on the answers they consume, and establish that Jev can fulfill all of them except the cardinal use of a value function. The remaining objects form positions that admit several roles each. We then construct algorithms that employ Jev at three of these positions, as a reference policy, an exploration judge, and a replay rater, to improve sample efficiency, exploration, and learning performance. Across nine MiniGrid tasks and three Atari games, training with Jev outperforms a standard RL learner, including where the learner makes no progress alone, while the model itself remains untrained. To our knowledge, we present the first use of Jev within the RL learning process and establish a frozen decision model as a usable component of RL training, inviting further exploration of how Jev and other advanced decision models can improve RL.
[AI-68] Constrained Command-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Bandit Strategy Selection in Real-Time Strategy Games
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11663
作者: Nick Leenders,Roy Lindelauf,Joost van Oijen,Boris Cule
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Deep reinforcement learning agents reach strong performance in real-time strategy games but can be brittle against opponents outside their training distribution. Separating strategic command selection from learned unit control allows different strategies to be selected for different opponents while reusing the same execution policy. This requires an executor that can follow different commands and measurable criteria for assessing whether it does so. We introduce a constrained command-conditioned Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) policy, the executor, for MicroRTS, a real-time strategy environment. Discrete commands specify strategic objectives and behavioral requirements for economy, army composition, military posture, and worker policy over multiple environment steps; the executor determines the unit-level actions used to fulfill them. A Thompson-sampling bandit acts as the strategist, selecting command tuples from an estimate of the opponent’s strategy built from in-game observations rather than opponent identity. In a controlled comparison with a flat PPO baseline trained with the same architecture, budget, curriculum and self-play league, the strategist-executor system wins significantly more often against three of the four strongest opponents on a training map, including the two strongest held-out ones (0.55 to 0.97 and 0.01 to 0.34), with no significant difference against the others.
[AI-69] Lamarcks Driving School: Discovering Autonomous Driving Training Strategies through Evolutionary Competition
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11662
作者: Yichun Ye,He Zhang,Ye Tian,Jian Sun
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Autonomous driving capabilities depend strongly on the distribution of scenarios encountered during training. Existing methods commonly construct or dynamically adapt training scenario distributions using surrogate criteria such as realism, difficulty, or risk. However, these predefined surrogates may misrepresent training value, leading to inefficient use of training resources. To address this limitation, we propose a Lamarckian evolutionary framework that replaces surrogate-based guidance with competition among candidate distributions. We formulate training strategy discovery as a multi-stage bilevel optimization problem and use Lamarckian evolution algorithm to approximate its solution. At the outer level, Darwinian crossover, mutation, and selection explore the scenario distribution space; at the inner level, policy learning acquires new capabilities, and Lamarckian inheritance transfers them to subsequent stages, allowing scenario distributions and policy capabilities to co-evolve. The resulting evolutionary trajectories reveal recurring stage-wise regularities among high-value distributions, characterized by capability accumulation through stage-wise challenge rotation. We further distill these regularities into a lightweight, reusable Lamarckian Training Strategy. Experiments show that, compared with the baseline, the complete framework reduces performance loss by up to 25.07%, while the lightweight strategy still achieves a 19.13% reduction. These results demonstrate that evolutionary competition can both discover effective training strategies and reveal reusable stage-wise patterns in how the value of training distributions changes with policy capability. Code is available on GitHub.
[AI-70] Evidence-Traceable Dynamic Interviewer Architecture for Expertise-Adaptive Qualitative Interviews Using Local LLM s
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11651
作者: Aisvarya Adeseye,Jouni Isoaho,Adeyemi Adeseye,Seppo Virtanen,Mohammad Tahir
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to be part of the book titled: AI in Education : Pedagogy, Ethics, and Society which will be published by Springer Nature in the Book series: Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence
Abstract:Automated interviewers and conversational agents are increasingly used in research, recruitment, customer service, and education. However, many existing systems rely on fixed question sequences and provide limited context-based personalization without considering participants’ knowledge, which can lead to repetitive or irrelevant follow-up questions. Therefore, there is a need for an adaptive interviewing system that can adjust question depth while maintaining conversational continuity and semantic progression. To address this, an Evidence-Traceable Dynamic Interviewer Architecture is presented using a locally hosted Large Language Model (LLM), with the interview continuously adapted throughout the entire conversation based on the participant’s responses and evolving context. The interviewer profiles participants’ expertise in real time to generate knowledge-appropriate questions, well-articulated responses, and smooth transition messages that support conversational continuity. A five-module prompt-driven architecture and persistent interview-state record support these functions. The interviewer was evaluated with 246 participants. Expertise Profiling module (M3) showed 78.9% exact agreement with independently reported participant expertise, with a weighted Cohen’s K of 0.80. Generate Iterative Questions module (M4) showed a strong expertise-complexity association (p=.79, p.001), and participants reported high relevance (mean 4.41), engagement (mean 4.32), and satisfaction (mean 4.38), providing evidence that the architecture’s adaptive components operated consistently with their intended functions while participants reported a positive interview experience.
[AI-71] One Skill Too Many: How Co-Installed Skills Conflict in Coding Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11647
作者: Chaoliang Yan,Zihao Xu,Yuekang Li,Shangzhi Xu,Yi Liu,Gelei Deng,Siqi Ma
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Coding agents are extended with agent skills, directories whose this http URL tells the model when and how to perform a task. Because skills come from independent sources (teams, developers, plugins, copied collections), an installed skill can be co-installed with a similar skill doing the same job, and the model picks between them by name and description alone. In a conflict, the installed skill loses core functions (e.g., a ban on touching git) because the similar skill runs instead or changes what it does. The task still passes, so benchmarks that check only task completion miss such cases. We present the first empirical study of such conflicts. From snapshots of 20,947 repositories, we mine 822,109 candidate similar-skill pairs, have an LLM judge a stratified sample of 3,754, and run 312 confirmed pairs on three models (6,368 runs, 169,294 tool calls, 542 agent-hours). We report five findings. (1) Conflict-prone skills are common: nearly one in four installed skills is co-installed with one that does the same job, and 37% of judged skills sit inside copied collections. (2) Most such pairs involve normative skills, then capability skills. (3) Without lowering task completion, a similar skill takes one in five runs from the installed skill, and runs that open the similar skill first lose over a third of the exclusive core functions that only the installed skill fulfills. (4) Install location decides which skill runs, listing order barely matters, and the final reply names the skill used in only 0.9% of substituted runs. (5) Conflicts are decided at the first skill read, almost always before any file is changed, and a pre-tool hook at that read restores fidelity on exclusive core functions to the level of runs that open the installed skill first. Benchmarks should thus score exclusive core functions, and platforms should guard the first read and show which skill ran.
[AI-72] LTBD: Learnable Trust-Boundary Delimiters for Prompt Injection Defense
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11634
作者: Luman Zhao,Minghui Xu,Yue Zhang,Yijun Yang
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 5 pages, 3 tables, 1 figures
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) perform remarkably well on complex tasks, yet remain highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious instructions embedded in external data can override user intent. Existing defenses remain limited by model fine-tuning requirements, vulnerability to adaptive attacks, or reliance on brittle handcrafted prompts. We argue that a fundamental source of this vulnerability is the lack of an explicit representation of trust provenance. To address this, we introduce Learnable Trust-Boundary Delimiters (LTBD), a lightweight defense that explicitly encodes trust boundaries in the input while keeping the LLM parameters unchanged. LTBD uses a small number of learnable delimiters to distinguish trusted user instructions from untrusted external data, enabling the model to better respect the intended trust hierarchy. Experimental results show that LTBD substantially outperforms inference-time defenses and performs competitively with training-based approaches, while preserving benign-task utility and introducing negligible inference overhead. In particular, LTBD achieves 0.00% ASR on AlpacaFarm and only 0.11-0.19% ASR on TaskTracker. LTBD also remains effective under adaptive attacks, where adversaries have full knowledge of the defense and explicitly attempt to bypass it.
[AI-73] Where to Adapt Matters: Layer-Selective Fine-Tuning for Capability Retention
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11620
作者: Zhiqiang Pang,Zihong Sun,Qi Xie,Jun Shu,Deyu Meng,Zongben Xu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables large language models (LLMs) to adapt to specialized tasks, but often at the cost of degrading general capabilities acquired during pretraining. Existing approaches primarily mitigate this trade-off through data replay or regularization, relying on additional data or explicit optimization constraints. We instead focus on a different question: where should adaptation be applied? We find that fine-tuning different Transformer layers produces different target-task gains and degrees of capability degradation, suggesting that not all layers are equally suitable for adaptation. To characterize this difference, we use layer-wise empirical Fisher information to measure target-task sensitivity. However, computing Fisher scores requires backward computation and becomes increasingly expensive for large models. We therefore introduce input–output cosine similarity as a lightweight, forward-only proxy for ranking layer sensitivity. Across models and tasks, layers with lower input–output similarity consistently exhibit higher empirical Fisher scores. Building on this observation, we propose Layer-Selective LoRA (LS-LoRA), which places trainable LoRA adapters only in layers with low input–output similarity. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and code generation show that LS-LoRA improves average target-task performance while retaining substantially more commonsense reasoning capability than standard all-layer LoRA, demonstrating that carefully choosing where to adapt can provide a simple and effective way to balance target-task adaptation and general capability retention.
[AI-74] Agent Evolver: System-Wide Self-Evolution Through Task Execution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11613
作者: Wentao Zhang,Fuchao Yang,Yilei Zhao,Xinrun Wang,Bo An
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:An agent can complete a task without improving how it works. Turning task experience into reusable capability requires connecting the changed component to its evaluation and subsequent use. We present AgentEvolver, a system for developing capabilities during task execution while keeping the foundation model fixed. Eight entity families expose reusable operations, methods, agents, control flow, interfaces, and supporting state to revision through a common versioned lifecycle. A shared Runtime coordinates ongoing work, while persistent planning and recoverable context preserve task direction and supporting evidence. We evaluate task outcomes on SWE-bench Pro Public and examine capability changes in six application cases. The team reports an 82.08% resolution rate with evolution, exceeding its reported baseline without evolution. The cases show retained capabilities entering later website, game, and research work, while also documenting incomplete objectives and an unsuccessful strategy. These findings distinguish improvement in a reusable component from success on the final task. AgentEvolver provides a concrete basis for studying capability accumulation through execution; independent-task transfer and total development cost remain open questions.
[AI-75] NanoProof: Open and Efficient Automated Theorem Proving in Lean 4 KR
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11605
作者: Matěj Kripner,Milan Straka
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 18 pages, 8 figures. Code: this https URL
Abstract:We introduce NanoProof, to our knowledge the first factorized execution-guided theorem prover in Lean 4 whose training data, extraction tooling, training pipeline, and weights are all released, making it end-to-end reproducible using open-source resources. To this end, we build and release a dataset of structured proof trees, as well as a tool for programmatic interaction and data extraction within the Lean 4 formal verifier. To support sustainable research, we focus on compute efficiency to facilitate accessible training and evaluation. NanoProof achieves 50.8% pass@16 on MiniF2F-Test, exceeding the two closest systems of its class, HyperTree Proof Search and ABEL, at roughly 90x and 7x less compute, and using more than four orders of magnitude less compute than AlphaProof. Stronger open-weight provers exist, but they are fine-tuned from large pretrained language models and release neither training data nor pipeline; NanoProof shows that the factorized execution-guided class of provers can be rebuilt from scratch with modest resources.
[AI-76] Error-Propagation Modeling for Failure Attribution in LLM -Based Multi-Agent Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11600
作者: Jiaqi Liao,Yuanzhao Zhai,Huanxi Liu,Xu Zhang,Zheming Zhuang,Dawei Feng,Bo Ding,Huaimin Wang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:LLM-based multi-agent systems (MASs) are increasingly used to solve complex tasks through coordinated reasoning, tool use, and interaction with external resources. However, attributing failures in such systems remains challenging because the observed outcome often does not directly reveal the error responsible for the failed execution. In this work, the attribution target is the decisive error, defined as the agent–step pair whose correction would recover the failed execution. Existing approaches largely identify suspicious steps without explicitly modeling how errors propagate across interactions or persist in unresolved loops, making decisive errors difficult to distinguish from downstream failure symptoms. We propose \textbfError-Propagation \textbfModeling for \textbfFailure \textbfAttribution (\textbfEMFA). EMFA constructs a structured representation of the failed trajectory, models both cascading propagation and persistent interaction loops, and uses propagation-aware candidate screening followed by counterfactual verification to identify the decisive agent–step pair. On the Who\When benchmark, EMFA achieves state-of-the-art step-level attribution accuracy and remains competitive at the agent level. It improves the previous best step-level results by 3.45 and 4.40 percentage points on the Hand-Crafted and Algorithm-Generated subsets, respectively.
[AI-77] Runnable Commit Untangling for Coding Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11593
作者: Jinfeng Jiang,Dongsun Kim,Dayi Lin,Zhou Yang
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Coding agents produce large, tangled patches that mix multiple development purposes, making the code hard to review and maintain. Commit untangling offers the promise of organizing such large patches into untangled, manageable commits. This paper emphasizes two important limitations in existing commit untangling studies. First, they do not consider that untangled commits are ordered and should leave the code runnable. In practice, maintainers are unlikely to accept commits that prevent the code from running. Second, existing studies claim that commit untangling helps software maintenance. However, they conduct syntactic comparisons between the untangled commits and developers’ original commits without directly showing the claimed maintenance benefits. To address these gaps, this paper makes two novel contributions: (1) RucTangle, the first agentic method that untangles commits while keeping the code runnable after each commit; and (2) TangleEval, the first evaluation framework that quantifies how untangled, manageable commit histories help coding agents repair bugs. We compare RucTangle against four untangling methods on 131 agent-generated patches. All histories produced by RucTangle are runnable, while baselines produce 20.6%-37.4% unrunnable commit histories. We further collect 453 agent-generated patches that introduce regressions (i.e., causing previously passing tests to fail) and ask two other coding agents to repair regressions. Augmenting agent context with RucTangle-produced histories yields 5.2% absolute improvement in pass@1. We also analyze agent trajectories to learn how they use untangled commits to navigate and fix bugs. Our findings demonstrate the value of adopting established software engineering practices in the era of coding agents, which broaden the future research agenda: how can agents actively use software history to make better development decisions?
[AI-78] SDPAD: A Fully Spike-Driven Pipeline for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11583
作者: Chengjun Zhang,Yuhao Zhang,Jie Yang,Mohamad Sawan
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:End-to-end autonomous driving demands trajectory planners that are both highly accurate and cheap enough for edge deployment. State-of-the-art artificial neural network (ANN) planners meet the accuracy requirement at the cost of heavy dense computation, while spiking neural networks (SNNs)—though promising orders-of-magnitude energy savings through sparse, event-driven arithmetic—still lag far behind in planning accuracy. We present \textbfSDPAD, a fully spike-driven end-to-end planning pipeline that closes this gap. SDPAD converts a pre-trained ANN perception stack into integer-spike form via quantized ANN2SNN conversion, lifts multi-view images into the bird’s-eye-view (BEV) space with a spike-driven-max (SDM) depth distribution (Spike-3D-Lift), and plans through the Spike-QFormer, a spiking query transformer in which ego, agent, and map queries distilled from the BEV scene are fused by learnable waypoint queries via cross-attention, followed by deformable spike-cross-attention refinement. Every operation is gated by integer spikes and inference is a single feed-forward pass without temporal simulation loops. On the nuScenes open-loop benchmark, SDPAD achieves an average L_2 error of 0.40,m and a collision rate of 0.12%, on par with strong ANN planners while consuming 69.9,mJ—less than 2% of recent ANN baselines. In closed-loop evaluation on the NAVSIM navtest split, SDPAD reaches 86.3 PDMS, surpassing the previous SNN planner SAD by 4.3 points and matching mainstream ANN planners at a fraction of their energy. To our knowledge, SDPAD is the first fully spike-driven planner evaluated in end-to-end autonomous driving, demonstrating that SNNs can rival dense ANNs in complex driving tasks.
[AI-79] Memory Type Varies: Empowering LLM Agents for Long-Term Memory with Diverse Strategies NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11573
作者: Yi Wen,Derong Xu,Pengyue Jia,Yichao Wang,Yingyi Zhang,Maolin Wang,Junyi Li,Wenlin Zhang,Xiaopeng Li,Yong Liu,Xiangyu Zhao
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The memory capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have garnered increasing attention recently. Despite great success achieved, existing retrieval-based memory approaches typically overlook the differences between memories and employ a unified strategy to process all memories, leading to suboptimal performance. Thus, an intuitive question arises: can we categorize memory into different types and select appropriate strategies? However, given the topic-rich, scenario-complex, and boundary-blurred nature of memory scenarios, achieving precise classification of memories is not easy. To address this challenge, we propose a memory multi-class dataset in this paper, termed TriMEM, which provides precise annotations for memory types across diverse scenarios. Building upon this foundation, we propose a novel memory framework, named MemoType, which can adaptively recognize each memory and query type with the learned router model. With the memory and query routing, MemoType can retrieve the memory with corresponding query types and design tailored retrieval strategies, thereby enhancing the retrieval performance. Moreover, we theoretically prove that any single retrieval strategy is subject to a fundamental upper bound on its expected retrieval precision in multi-class corpora, leading to systematic precision degradation. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate that MemoType consistently outperforms existing methods, achieving up to 16.18% improvement in Recall@1.
[AI-80] Scaling to Tens of Thousands of Test-Time Iterations with Loop-Native Attention Residuals
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11570
作者: Pengxiang Li,Dilxat Muhtar,Di He,Guinan Su,Lu Yin,Shiwei Liu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:In this paper, we argue that looped Transformers need their own residual connections to prevent performance degradation as the number of iterations grows. We observe that increasing loop iterations can reduce reasoning accuracy: noisy state updates overwrite correct intermediate deductions and even undo completed solutions. This leaves subsequent iterations to recover lost information from an already degraded representation: once an error arises in an earlier loop, often as a result of long-range propagation through the recurrence, later loops find it difficult to correct. In this paper, we introduce InfiLoop, a loop-native residual connection that learns which past computations to retain and how much to accept from each new update. InfiLoop combines content-based weighting with learned temporal decay to maintain a running summary of recurrent states. An exact streaming recurrence keeps its persistent aggregation memory constant as the loop count grows. The resulting adaptive update suppresses unreliable proposals and preserves useful intermediate states. Across extensive reasoning tasks, a 7M-parameter InfiLoop model outperforms existing recursive architectures, reaching 97.9% exact accuracy on Sudoku-Extreme, and 13.6% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-2. Notably, on Sudoku-Extreme, InfiLoop continues to improve with test-time looping beyond 20,000 effective steps, showing that added depth translates directly into stronger reasoning. Our code is available at this https URL.
[AI-81] Sera: Semantic Representation Aggregation for Reliable and Interpretable Battery Health Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11567
作者: Jiawei Li,Fang Liu,Wei Zhang,Zuming Liu,Man-Fai Ng,Zhi Wei Seh
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Battery state of health (SoH) forecasting is important for battery management, but remains challenging due to nonlinear degradation and heterogeneity across batteries. Existing data-driven approaches primarily use temporal models to learn from numerical battery time series, and higher-level degradation characteristics are often not explicitly represented. These characteristics, however, can provide degradation guidance to support reliable forecasting and make the influence of degradation more interpretable. In this paper, we propose \textscSera, a \underlinesemantic \underlinerepresentation \underlineaggregation framework that complements temporal modelling with degradation semantics. Guided by battery domain expertise, \textscSera extracts degradation semantics from time series and constructs two complementary representations using rule-based knowledge and LLM-based interpretation. The representations are independently encoded and integrated with the representation learned by temporal models through gated aggregations. Experiments on the mainstream benchmark across multiple prediction horizons and different temporal models show that \textscSera consistently improves forecasting performance, achieving up to a 37.3% reduction in prediction error over the temporal baseline and enhanced generalizability. Counterfactual analysis examines how forecasts respond to changes in degradation semantics to assess interpretability. The results show that prediction responses are consistent with the meanings of key degradation descriptors across tested horizons. Together, these findings demonstrate that structured degradation semantics and effective aggregation can improve forecasting accuracy and support reliable and interpretable battery health forecasting for advanced battery management.
[AI-82] Workerville: Towards an Organizational Behavior Account of Agent Safety
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11561
作者: Hanjun Luo,Junting Mao,Yuhan Lu,Haobo Zhang,Zhimu Huang,Yankai Chen,Hanan Salam,Xue Liu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:LLM-based agents now interact with their environments continuously, shaped by such organizational channels as user instructions, peer messages, and long-term memory. Existing safety research has examined these influences, but largely as separate agent components. How such factors jointly shape an agent’s safety behavior from a unified perspective remains unmeasured. To bridge this gap, we advocate organizational behavior (OB) as a framework for studying the safety of advanced agents, reorganizing the objects of study, theoretical foundations, and experimental design around the relational structure in which agents operate. We present the first systematic formalization of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), a canonical safety-relevant subfield of OB, as Agentic Counterproductive Behavior (ACB). ACB specifies three organizational antecedents (vertical supervisor relations, horizontal peer norms, and internal cognitive structures) and maps them onto three counterproductive outcome dimensions (unauthorized disclosure, destructive operations, and production deviation). To operationalize ACB, we introduce Workerville, a controlled benchmark that manipulates organizational conditions over shared tasks, applying 16 organizational configurations to 210 tasks to yield 3,360 challenges, evaluated by human-validated agentic judges. Benchmarking 6 frontier LLMs, we find that (I) negative organizational antecedents exhibit non-monotonic amplification when combined, with the unauthorized-disclosure rate rising from 16.5% under no negative antecedent to 60.1% under two and falling back to 50.3% under three; (II) agents reproduce typical behavioral patterns predicted by human CWB research; (III) these results establish OB as a systematic framework for agent safety research, pointing toward a new research agenda.
[AI-83] Safe Persistent and Evolving Agent Harness for Understanding Partially Observable Worlds
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11552
作者: Yisen Gao,Yue Guo,Qing Zong,Yiwen Guo,Yangqiu Song
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language model agents can invoke tools fluently, but enterprise workflows demand more than selecting the right tools: actions must strictly comply with organizational policies, tool feedback often conceals hidden side effects under partial observability, and long-horizon tasks require persistent state tracking across multiple records. To address these challenges, we introduce E-Ledger, a multi-agent harness for safe and persistent execution. E-Ledger employs a code approval layer that checks every proposed action against policy before execution, and maintains a world ledger of verified hidden rules alongside evidence-backed dynamic state. Because hidden rules are typically unknown a priori, we further propose WorldAbduct, an abductive, world-model-driven harness evolution framework. WorldAbduct diagnoses execution trajectories across four complementary views (state consistency, world-observation gap, policy-gate correctness, and goal judgment) to hypothesize latent rules, and verifies them through targeted abductive interactions before integrating them into the ledger. On the enterprise benchmark World of Workflows, E-Ledger with WorldAbduct improves safe task completion across four LLM backbones, outperforming the strongest evolution baseline by 5–15 percentage points. Experiments in ScienceWorld and DiscoveryWorld further show that abductive harness evolution carries over to scientific environments. Our code is available at this https URL.
[AI-84] Learning to Orchestrate Evolutionary Search: Progression-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic DE-CMA-ES Coordination in Optimization and Structural Model Updating
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11546
作者: Lechen Li(1 and 2),Rongye Shi(3),Wanhuan Zhou(1) ((1) State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau, Macau 519000, China, (2) College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China, (3) School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China)
类目: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Solving high-dimensional structural model updating problems requires an algorithm capable of navigating complex, non-convex landscapes with correlated parameters. Existing hybrid evolutionary algorithms typically rely on static architectures or fixed switching rules, resulting in disjointed search phases. To address this, this study proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning-governed dynamic DE-CMAES Orchestration (DRL-DCO) algorithm, in which a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG)-based actor-critic agent continuously governs the evolutionary process as a single, unified system rather than a mechanical concatenation of algorithms. Guided by a progression-aware state representation and a diversity-informed reward, the agent fluidly reallocates computational resources between the differencevector-based exploration of Differential Evolution (DE) and the covariance-guided exploitation of CMA-ES, while jointly regulating population size, elite preservation, and a restart mechanism to escape local optima. This allows DRL-DCO to autonomously transition between exploration-dominant, exploitation-dominant, and mixed-strategy regimes across generations. Beyond the training phase, the trained actor can operate in a supervision-free inference mode, where the internalized policy autonomously orchestrates DE and CMA-ES control from observed search states through forward inference alone, without critic evaluation or weight updates, enabling faster deployment while retaining full effectiveness. Validated on high-dimensional single-objective optimization benchmarks and the IASC-ASCE structural health monitoring benchmark, DRL-DCO achieves superior convergence accuracy and robustness compared to state-of-the-art adaptive and hybrid evolutionary algorithms, as well as single-operator DRL-governed baselines.
[AI-85] ReTeach: Building a Self-Teacher through Multi-Round Reflection and Retry
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11529
作者: Yafeng Tang,Hao Li,Hongsheng Yu,Qiang Fu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Self-distillation can improve reasoning without a separately trained, more capable teacher, but its effectiveness depends on how the self-teacher gains an advantage over the student. Conditioning the teacher on reference answers or solutions can provide such an advantage, but this information may be unavailable. Reflection offers a way to derive explicit error diagnoses and revision guidance from self-generated attempts, yet existing reflection-based methods often combine it with reference information, rich task feedback, or persistent memory. We introduce ReTeach, a Reflective self-distillation framework that constructs its self-Teacher through multi-round reflection and retry using only self-generated attempts and outcome-level verification. Starting from an unsuccessful student rollout, the teacher alternates explicit reflection with renewed attempts until success or the retry budget is exhausted, without reference answers or solutions, external diagnostic feedback, or cross-example memory. Each failed retry informs subsequent reflection, while successful correction provides outcome-level evidence for the potential utility of the resulting teacher context. An outcome-aware selection and weighting strategy distinguishes initially correct, reflection-corrected, and unresolved examples, assigning separate weights to their category-normalized distillation losses. Through on-policy distillation, the student matches the teacher’s context-conditioned token-level predictive distributions at prefixes of its own rollouts, transferring the benefits of iterative correction while retaining single-pass inference. Across six benchmarks spanning mathematical reasoning, science question answering, and tool use, ReTeach improves average accuracy over GRPO by 1.39 percentage points.
[AI-86] AtomWorld-Mirror: Macro-Step World Modeling of Critical Evolution Backbones for Materials Dynamics
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11527
作者: Ziming Pan,Ruge Zhang,Haozhi Han,Junkai Zhou,Xingyuan Chen,Yifeng Chen,Yunquan Zhang,Ting Cao,Yunxin Liu,Kun Li
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
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Abstract:Atomistic simulation is a fundamental tool for studying long-term materials evolution, from diffusion and defect dynamics to interfacial reactions and fracture. Yet conventional simulators typically advance at microscopic resolution, spending substantial computation on low-impact local updates before reaching structurally consequential states, an evolutionary-resolution bottleneck that limits long-horizon simulation. We propose AtomWorld-Mirror, a time-aware macro-step world model for the critical evolution backbone of atomic systems. For Step-Wise atomistic simulation, AtomWorld-Mirror distills short micro-event segments into physically reachable transitions between key states, jointly predicting sparse structural edits and accumulated physical time through latent macro-step dynamics. Local reachability, inventory conservation, and continuous-time consistency constrain each transition. By amortizing local atomic physics into a reusable latent macro model and replacing explicit micro-event replay with macro-step inference, this formulation provides a path toward substantially faster prediction of long-term materials evolution while preserving structural validity and time semantics. Across five atomic systems, spanning Cu-rich RPV steel irradiation aging, Cu-Zr metallic glass, and Li _3 N-based anti-perovskite solid electrolyte, macro-step inference delivers a speed up of 10^3 to 10^4 times over event-by-event simulation.
[AI-87] he Operator Mismatch Problem: Deploying BEV Perception with Portable GPU Compute
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11504
作者: Rohit Verma,Anand V Bodas
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Modern autonomous driving systems rely on bird’s-eye-view (BEV) perception models that fuse camera and LiDAR inputs to detect objects in 3D space. These models are accurate, but they cannot be deployed through standard inference runtimes. The reason is an operator mismatch between dense convolutions (which runtimes handle well), sparse 3D convolutions (which runtimes cannot represent), and geometric scatter operations (which runtimes have no vocabulary for). Today, every sparse convolution library is CUDA-only and PyTorch-coupled, locking BEV deployment to a single vendor’s hardware and a single execution framework. We present BEVPIPE, a framework for deploying multimodal BEV perception pipelines using portable GPU compute APIs and integrating them with production inference runtimes. BEVPIPE partitions the model into runtime-managed dense subgraphs and three external operator extensions (voxelizer, sparse encoder, BEV projector), connected through a shared GPU memory space. BEVPIPE achieves a 19.5x end-to-end speedup over conventional deployments while retaining 98.5% of reference mAP. We also showcase that BEVPIPE is portable across different GPU backends. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11504 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2610.11504v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11504 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-88] Fed-GRPO: Reward-Signal-Driven Federated Group Relative Policy Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11502
作者: Pengxin Guo,Shuang Zeng,Zonggen Li,Weiying Zheng,Mengting Liu,Liangqiong Qu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning capabilities when fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL), particularly through Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). However, existing GRPO methods assume centralized access to training data, which may not hold in practice due to privacy or regulatory constraints. To this end, we propose Fed-GRPO, a federated GRPO training framework that addresses these privacy constraints by enabling collaborative reasoning training without sharing raw data, which leverages the reward statistics naturally produced during GRPO training as zero-cost signals to guide aggregation, local training, and communication. Fed-GRPO contains three reward-signal-driven mechanisms: (i) \emphsignal-weighted aggregation that weights clients by their reward standard deviation, prioritizing clients with stronger learning signals; (ii) \emphglobal reward calibration that re-weights per-prompt objectives based on the local-global reward gap, steering each client toward its relative weaknesses; and (iii) \emphadaptive sparse communication that allocates bandwidth based on the informativeness of each client’s update. Extensive experiments on mathematical reasoning tasks demonstrate that Fed-GRPO achieves the best performance among all federated methods, clearly outperforms FedAvg and approaches centralized training performance, while losslessly reducing communication by 32\times and supporting up to 621\times compression under tight bandwidth budgets with only graceful accuracy degradation. Our code is available at this https URL.
[AI-89] BridgeGuard: Explicit Safety Drift for Diffusion-based Autonomous Driving
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11483
作者: Zhenjun Qiu,Jianing Huang,Dongang Liu,Baiyu Du,Yixun Niu,Hao Yang,Xinyu Huang,Chuan Hu,Shu Liu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Diffusion-based driving planners capture diverse behaviors but can generate unsafe trajectories under distribution shift. We propose BridgeGuard, a safety-constrained diffusion planning method that progressively strengthens a constraint term during denoising to drive intermediate trajectories toward a scene-dependent safety domain. Corrections operate in a low-dimensional curve space, promoting geometric coherence. A learned module, DistanceFieldNet, predicts a time-dependent distance field from bird’s-eye-view features. Value and spatial-gradient supervision at queries sampled beyond expert trajectories teaches this field about both safe and unsafe regions. The learned field supplies the constraint term through safety injection while the pretrained perception backbone and planner remain frozen. We further establish sufficient conditions for terminal safety in an idealized continuous-time bridge. On Bench2Drive, BridgeGuard improves driving score/success rate from 87.99/74.99% to 90.88/76.36% for BridgeDrive and from 80.79/58.18% to 90.46/74.09% for \textDiffusionDrive^\textgeo , demonstrating cross-model generalization.
[AI-90] Evaluating Local Language Model Agents for Reproducible Data Engineering: An Empirical Software Engineering Study of Mobility Workflows
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11482
作者: Jorge García-Carrasco,Javier Sanchis,Alejandro Reina-Reina,Alejandro Maté,Juan Trujillo
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Context: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used as software and data-engineering assistants, yet evidence about locally deployable open-weight agents remains limited. Existing evaluations often emphasize textual responses or isolated code generation rather than the validity of complete engineering artifacts. Objectives: We evaluate whether local LLM agents can produce correct and reproducible data-engineering artifacts, quantify the effect of a closed-loop workspace condition, and examine trade-offs in model scale, architecture, quantization, runtime, tool use, and failure. Methods: We introduce a benchmark of fifteen mobility-workflow tasks covering data discovery, connectors, transport-feed processing, semantic enrichment, feature engineering, validation, visualization, and reporting. Deterministic checkers assess generated scripts, tables, structured files, figures, and reports. Ten local configurations are evaluated in one-shot and closed-loop conditions, with five repetitions per model, mode, and task, yielding 1,500 scored attempts on a consumer-grade GPU. Results: Among models larger than two billion parameters, the workspace condition increases pass rates by 26.7-52.0 percentage points over one-shot generation. The strongest configuration reaches 85.3% artifact-level success, and a quantized 9-billion-parameter model reaches 69.3% with an approximately 6.5 GB memory footprint. Gains are largest when intermediate artifacts expose errors the agent can inspect and repair. Conclusion: Local open-weight agents can support a meaningful subset of software-intensive data-engineering work, but reliability depends on model capability, task verifiability, and deterministic validation. The benchmark provides a reproducible method for evaluating complete agent configurations before adoption in engineering workflows. Comments: Preprint, under review. 26 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables. Dataset: this https URL Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG) ACMclasses: D.2.8; I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2610.11482 [cs.SE] (or arXiv:2610.11482v1 [cs.SE] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11482 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Jorge García-Carrasco [view email] [v1] Thu, 8 Oct 2026 08:26:46 UTC (63 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Evaluating Local Language Model Agents for Reproducible Data Engineering: An Empirical Software Engineering Study of Mobility Workflows, by Jorge Garc’ia-Carrasco and 4 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.SE prev | next new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI cs.DB cs.LG References Citations NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation loading… Data provided by: Bookmark checked="checked"class=“labs-tab-input”> Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv’s community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?) mathjaxToggle(); We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders, member institutions, , and all contributors. About Help Contact Subscribe Copyright Privacy Accessibility Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from
[AI-91] RoboAware: Learning to Coordinate Embodied Skills from Counterfactual Outcomes
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11480
作者: Bohan Zhou,Xingbei Chen,Emily Huang,Weilin Ruan,Haojian Huang,Yehang Zhang,Zexi Li,Wenqian Li,Qize Yu,Zetian Song,Leyi Wu,Jinghao Li,Mingxuan Song,Xinrun Xu,Zongyang Qiu,Yangkai Wei,Tianyi Zhang,Kaiwen Zhou,Yinchuan Li,James Cheng
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Embodied coding agents can combine modular robot skills with frozen end-to-end policies, yet effective composition requires anticipating which policy family will succeed in the current physical state. We present RoboAware, which builds on coding agents’ skill orchestration by learning only a state-conditioned responsibility coordinator from counterfactual outcomes. Inspired by the success of REPL, we propose the P^5 schema and formulate a hierarchical MDP based on it. P^5 organizes skills uniformly into five semantic stages, defining where responsibility can be compared. To address the lack of counterfactual branch outcomes in existing work, we introduce State-Locked Counterfactual Branching (SCB), which restores the same training state to generate and execute a code block from each admissible family, exposing outcomes that selected-branch experience leaves unobserved. Building on this, we propose Execution-Aware Learning (EAL), which combines Monte Carlo tree search with Q-learning to distill these outcomes into family-conditioned values. At deployment, the coordinator selects the policy family according to observable context, and the frozen coding agent generates the next local code block. Comprehensive single-episode evaluations on 100 tasks show that RoboAware reaches a 77.0% overall success rate, with SOTA averages of 90.0% on RoboSuite, 73.8% on diverse LIBERO-Pro task clusters, and 90.0% on challenging RoboTwin bimanual tasks, outperforming existing code-as-policy and VLA-harness baselines.
[AI-92] From Chain-of-Thought to Loops: Non-Autoregressive Latent Reasoning via Looped Transformers
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11472
作者: Gerard Grau García,Arnau Padrés Masdemont,Niccolò Grillo,Jordi Ros-Giralt,Arash Behboodi,Victor Conchello Vendrell
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning often improves language-model performance by giving models additional computation before answering. However, explicit CoT expresses this computation as a sequence of autoregressively generated tokens. Latent reasoning replaces these tokens with compact continuous states, but most autoregressive latent-reasoning methods retain a left-to-right dependency among latent vectors. We introduce LLoCoT: a looped latent-reasoning framework that replaces left-to-right latent generation with iterative refinement of a compact latent workspace. A shared transformer is reapplied for a small number of refinement iterations, jointly updating the latent slots based on the prompt and the evolving workspace state. Using the refined state, a probabilistic head predicts a distribution from which latent tokens are sampled in parallel and used to condition an autoregressive decoder for answer generation. Training uses continuous representations derived from explicit CoT together with a final-answer prediction loss and likelihood-based supervision of the latent states. Across HumanEval and MBPP, LLoCoT achieves the highest mean among the evaluated methods, performing on par in accuracy with Reasoning SFT, our explicit-CoT baseline, while outperforming the base model, answer-only SFT and NF-CoT. Relative to Reasoning SFT, LLoCoT reduces time to the first answer token by approximately 36\times and reasoning-phase latency by approximately 42\times , while increasing end-to-end throughput by 9.2% . This design replaces serial thought generation with parallel latent-slot refinement while retaining probabilistic latent modeling and autoregressive answer decoding.
[AI-93] GROB: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Public-Trace Investigation of Candidate Agent ic Activity
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11467
作者: Chiara Bonfanti,Cataldo Basile
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:We present GROB, a multi-agent architecture for investigating candidate autonomous-agent activity through public Internet traces when privileged telemetry is unavailable. The system performs controlled, read-only collection of public traces and preserves selected observations for later resolution. In a frozen September 2026 corpus, several collected traces became more informative as additional public evidence emerged. The strongest result concerns Census-labelled identifiers captured on 9 September. Public revision records later resolved these identifiers to specific Census requests from 16 - 17 June. Other results show weaker links between traces collected by GROB and evidence reconstructed or reported later. These links vary in strength, and only some can be tied to specific public records. The results show that sparse public traces can remain useful even before their significance is fully understood. Such evidence can support later reconstruction, but public traces alone do not establish organizational attribution. Execution identity presents a separate problem, as continuity of agent identity remains an active research question for autonomous language-model agents.
[AI-94] Generative Adversarial Loops
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11458
作者: Kislay Aditya Oj,Nidhi Jain,Sri Surya Varma Datla,Priyanka Jayaswal,Kumar Krishna Agrawal,Aditya Desai
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:AI research progress can be viewed as the interaction between two processes: benchmark creation and method discovery. Historically, both were driven by human intelligence. However, recent advances in AI have accelerated automated method discovery, while automated benchmark creation has received comparatively less attention. To enable self-advancing systems, we propose Generative Adversarial Loop (GAL), a generator-discriminator framework alternating between two agentic searches: (1) a discriminator that generates adversarial data to expose weaknesses in current systems, and (2) a generator that discovers algorithms to overcome them. We apply this framework to approximation algorithms for efficient inference. Unlike existing auto research systems, which primarily focus on algorithm discovery, GAL introduces a discriminator agent that automates goalpost setting by continually searching for weaknesses in the current algorithm. We demonstrate adversarial data generation across four tasks: KV compression, sparse video generation, sparse attention, and context extension, where the discriminator identifies weaknesses in state of the art techniques. We further show that GAL enables autonomous improvement, with newly discovered algorithms improving not only on adversarially generated data, but also on established benchmarks. Specifically, GAL improves CompactorPress on KV compression with Qwen3-4B at 4x, raising performance on the discriminator dataset from 0.35 to 0.97, while also outperforming RULER-HARD (+0.77 pts). For context extension, GAL boosts Dual Chunk Attention from 0.20 to 0.90 on the discriminator dataset, while yielding gains on standard benchmarks(ScienceFiction (+6 pts) and PG19 32K (-0.33 PPL)). GAL thus provides a path toward autonomous goalpost setting and algorithmic improvement, where AI systems continually discover their own weaknesses and develop methods to overcome them.
[AI-95] SpikeSSL: A Universal Spike Inference Framework with Dynamics-Informed State-Space Layers
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11456
作者: Chenghao Yue,Siming Xing,Shuran Liu,Angran Li,Yuanlong Zhang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Two-photon calcium imaging is a standard tool for recording large neural populations in vivo, yet inferring spikes accurately across the growing diversity of calcium indicators remains an open problem. Existing supervised methods achieve reasonable in-domain accuracy but generalize poorly to unseen indicators, because different indicators induce distinct fluorescence kinetics and signal statistics while existing architectures remain relatively simple generic temporal regressors without dynamics-matched inductive bias. We propose SpikeSSL, a universal spike inference framework whose temporal backbone is a bank of bidirectional IIR state-space layers broadly motivated by calcium dynamics. A multi-modal conditioning encoder maps indicator identity, sampling rate, and trace-level signal statistics into a global conditioning vector that modulates the backbone via Adaptive Layer Normalization, while a heteroscedastic variance head provides calibrated per-frame uncertainty. On a benchmark with five fixed evaluation splits built from 33 public ground-truth datasets, SpikeSSL achieves state-of-the-art performance in both in-domain and zero-shot leave-one-indicator-out settings. We also develop a biophysical simulation pipeline capable of generating paired fluorescence-spike traces with systematically varied kinetic parameters, spike statistics, response nonlinearities, baseline drift, and noise. Using this pipeline, we synthesize approximately 11,000 simulated traces. Augmenting training with these data effectively closes the cross-indicator domain gap and improves zero-shot generalization. Code is publicly available at this https URL.
[AI-96] Zatom-2: Multitask Pretraining on Atomistic Data for Generative Modeling across Domains
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11454
作者: Miruna Cretu,Alex Abrudan,Antonia Panescu,Tynan Perez,Rishabh Anand,N. Benjamin Erichson,Michael W. Mahoney,Samuel Blau,Joseph Jacobson,Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli,Rex Ying,Tuomas Knowles,Pietro Liò,Alex Morehead
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Unified atomistic modeling has the potential to accelerate discovery in chemistry, materials science, and biology by bridging data-rich chemical domains and data-scarce biological contexts. However, existing generative approaches to atomistic modeling remain highly specialized to scientific disciplines (chemistry vs. biology) or do not leverage both high-volume organic (molecule) and inorganic (material) data for general-purpose pretraining. To this end, we introduce Zatom-2, an atomistic generative model pretrained on approximately five million structures from the OMol25 and OMat24 electronic structure datasets. Zatom-2 features a multiscale Transformer architecture coupled with conditional flow matching that supports force conditioning and foundational pretraining tasks such as generation, structure prediction, and prediction of molecular and material energies and forces. Empirically, Zatom-2 achieves better molecular distribution fidelity than Zatom-1 and achieves strong performance on existing molecule and material generation benchmarks. Zatom-2 demonstrates the ability to control sample generation across low- and high-force regimes, and enhances protein generation in a low-data setting through joint generative-predictive pretraining and transfer learning, increasing protein backbone designability in a length extrapolation setting from 67.8% without pretraining to 74.8% after finetuning on 2,000 protein domains.
[AI-97] racing the Thoughts of a Coding Agent Playing ARC-AGI-3: Lessons for Continual Learning NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11450
作者: Chen Wu,Josh Passenger,Yin Song
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:We study how a coding agent learns across a sequence of abstract reasoning tasks. The agent runs on a frozen foundation model inside a fixed harness and acts by writing and running Python and shell scripts. It retains no state across turns other than its written artifacts, so every thought it forms, carries, corrects or abandons leaves a trace, where a thought is any belief, rule or plan committed to a file. We let the agent play ARC-AGI-3, a set of interactive reasoning games that provide no instructions. Each game is a sequence of levels, and a strategy that clears one level can fail on the next, so every new level is in effect a new task. The agent records what it learns as Python scripts and text notes, while the harness keeps a complete log of every action and observation. Our contribution is a measurement protocol that traces each thought through these files, from the task where it forms to the task where it is corrected or abandoned, applied to seven evaluation runs with three backbones from two model families. Scripts written for one task are almost never called again in a later task (33 of 630 references cross a task boundary), because most scripts embed the state of the current level. Instead, the agent rewrites its knowledge into new scripts, keeping the general rules and dropping the level-specific details, and abandons 74% of the scripts it wrote before a boundary. The notes, which only the model reads, are never revised: the agent appends without removing earlier claims, and the contradictions that accumulate are settled against the log. Because the log preserves everything, the agent forgets selectively, not catastrophically. The most costly error is a hard-coded value carried into a task where it no longer holds. These findings come from the files the agent wrote, without access to the model, and constitute a white-box analysis of how a coding agent continually learns.
[AI-98] Closed-loop evaluation of LLM agents for embedded software development
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11447
作者: Jorge García-Carrasco,Sergio García-Carrasco,Alejandro Maté,Juan Trujillo
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as coding agents that edit files, run builds and tests, inspect execution results, and repair software iteratively. Embedded firmware is a demanding target because correctness depends on closed-loop behavior under sensing, timing, and safety constraints, not only on static source quality. Yet embedded-agent evaluation remains limited and often emphasizes one-shot synthesis or offline correctness. We present a benchmark for closed-loop evaluation of embedded coding agents. Each task provides a plain-text engineering description, constrained workspace, and visible build-and-runtime surface. The agent must translate requirements into implementation and self-verification steps, then iterate until the required device behavior is achieved. The suite contains five embedded-control tasks and four feedback scenarios: one-shot generation, realistic self-verification, CI-style red/green feedback, and oracle-style detailed feedback. The implementation targets simulated ESP32 firmware for reproducibility. We evaluate seven GPT-family and Qwen-family configurations across five tasks and four scenarios, with three repetitions per condition for 420 runs. gpt-5.4 has the highest pass rate among evaluated configurations but does not saturate the benchmark; qwen3.5-27B is the strongest observed local model; and smaller local models degrade sharply in pass rate and search efficiency. These results suggest that capable local embedded coding agents are emerging. Comments: Published in Journal of Systems Architecture 179 (2026) 103937. 23 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables. Code and artifacts: this https URL Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Machine Learning (cs.LG) ACMclasses: D.2.5; I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2610.11447 [cs.SE] (or arXiv:2610.11447v1 [cs.SE] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11447 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Journalreference: J. Syst. Archit. 179 (2026) 103937 Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2026.103937 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources
[AI-99] Why machines will still not rule the world
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11424
作者: Jobst Landgrebe,Barry Smith
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:In our book Why machines will never rule the world [13, 14] we argue that arti- ficial general intelligence is mathematically impossible. This is because the human beings and the processes which exhibit intelligence are complex systems whose be- haviour cannot be captured by the kinds of models that we can generate with or without computers. Proponents of contemporary machine intelligence respond with two lines of argument: a theoretical one, grounded in the universal approximation theorems for neural networks and the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle; and an em- pirical one, grounded in rapidly rising scores on standardized benchmarks. In this communication we examine and reject both responses. First, we show serious issues in the physicalist counter-argument based on the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle. Second, we review recent evidence to the effect that prominent benchmarks are compromised by training-data contamination, flawed test construction, and strate- gic optimization. Our central argument remains: That models required to perform cognitive behaviour in open-ended, thermodynamically complex and non-ergodic environments are not and will not become achievable.
[AI-100] Rewiring Semantics Dynamics and Control: A Simple yet Effective Action-Centric Tri-Stream Transformer
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11416
作者: Shuang Luo,Yilun Kong,Yunpeng Qing,Yihang Jiao,Zhi Hou,Shunyu Liu,Xiaogang Wang,Dacheng Tao
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent framework for complex robotic manipulation, building on the strong semantic understanding of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, such VLM backbones offer insufficient physical dynamics priors, which limits the generalization capabilities of robot policies. Recent efforts therefore integrate video-generation World Models (WMs) into robot policies through various strategies, using predictive dynamics to facilitate action generation. Despite these advances, harnessing semantic understanding and dynamics prediction as complementary guidance for action generation remains challenging. In this paper, we introduce \mathrmACT^3 , a simple yet effective Action-Centric Tri-Stream Transformer that fuses semantic and dynamics information into control actions while preserving the distinct roles of context streams. Specifically, \mathrmACT^3 enables the dedicated action expert to access VLM and WM representations through layerwise attention, with each backbone attending only within its own stream. This straightforward interaction design maintains independent forward propagation in the context streams while allowing both backbones to be updated through control supervision. Experiments on both simulated and real-world robotic manipulation benchmarks show that the proposed \mathrmACT^3 yields results superior to its counterparts.
[AI-101] Cognition-Oriented Emotion Tracing from Causes to Consequences in Real-World Social Scenes
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11410
作者: Hao Li,Jinye Zhang,Bobo Li,Mong-Li Lee,Wynne Hsu,Zheng Wang,Hao Fei,Min Zhang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Affective computing has progressed from categorical emotion recognition to open-ended affective analysis with large multimodal models. Yet affective science describes emotion as an unfolding process shaped by appraisal, regulation, and social interpretation, which remains underexplored computationally. We propose TRACE, a cognition-oriented framework that formalizes an affective episode through three interrelated stages: Condition, Affect, and Effect, integrating observable cues with cognitive factors such as internal stance and regulation of emotional display. Based on this formulation, TRACE-Bench evaluates multimodal models in real-world social scenes through five tasks spanning grounded affect recognition, regulation decoding, cause reasoning, effect reasoning, and full-chain reconstruction, with 3,746 structured question-answer pairs over 646 videos. A matched human-model comparison reveals a substantial performance gap, while affect-specialized models also generally lag behind general-purpose MLLMs. Model outputs show recurring failures, including treating displayed behavior as genuine feeling and fabricating unsupported events during long-chain generation. We further propose TRACER, a cognition-grounded structured reasoning method that couples each inference with explicit premises from factual observations, cognitive appraisals, and established upstream conclusions, forming a traceable graph of intermediate and target conclusions. TRACER outperforms all evaluated model baselines on each of the five tasks. Project page: this https URL
[AI-102] Estimating great expectations under autoregressive language models with potentials
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11399
作者: Francesco I. Re,Shubhangi Ghosh,Tim Vieira,Ryan Cotterell
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
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Abstract:Many applications of language models hinge not on individual samples but on the expectation of a test functional under the model. Estimating such expectations reliably can be computationally expensive. In this paper, we show how to make estimation more efficient by exploiting the next-token conditional probabilities which are available as a by-product of sampling. We do so through potentials: real-valued functions on prefixes that decompose the test functional additively. We construct an estimator whose variance depends on the chosen potential, and derive conditions under which a potential reduces this variance. We then develop practical potentials for several estimands and applications, and demonstrate substantial variance reductions across several estimands at comparable computational cost.
[AI-103] ypedBench: A Benchmark for Calibration Framing Sensitivity and Cost in System One Decision Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11392
作者: Rahul Sharma,Andrew B. Ducan,Gaétan Marceau Caron,Sebastian J. Vollmer
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Applications (stat.AP)
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Abstract:System One models output calibrated probabilities over typed answers such as categorical choices, ordinal levels, or binary outcomes, via a non-generative interface. Software can act on these probabilities through thresholds, cost-weighted choices, and escalation rules. Consequently, if these probabilities are miscalibrated or wording-sensitive, the software ma take unintended actions leaving human operators with no textual rationale to inspect. Current evaluations largely report accuracy and calibration on public classification datasets without a clear reference. We present TypedBench, a benchmark for typed decision models like Jev built from seven policy-labelled generators and nine evaluation suites. We report accuracy as median and range across paraphrases, and calibration error relative to the finite-sample noise floor of a matched, perfectly calibrated predictor. We assess probability quality through selective prediction, ordinal proper scoring rules, and realised cost under asymmetric cost matrices. We evaluate a hosted model, an open encoder, and a family of open decoders spanning 0.8B-9B parameters on identical items. The hosted model follows the stated policy but is wording-sensitive and systematically underconfident; under asymmetric costs, using its probabilities can be worse than taking its top answer. Decoders route exactly and are slow as options or questions are added. The decoder is least accurate on policy questions and degrades with more options. Overall, typed decision models must be evaluated jointly on policy adherence, wording robustness, probability quality, and induced decision outcomes.
[AI-104] RISR: Residual-Informed Scientific Equation Discovery with Large Language Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11387
作者: Haobo Li,Wenshuo Zhang,Wenxiao Zhao,Eunseo Jung,Rui Sheng,Yushi Sun,Peiqin Zhuang,Hao Chen,Fenghua Ling
类目: ymbolic Computation (cs.SC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Symbolic regression combines structural search with numerical fitting, but aggregate fit scores do not describe how the remaining error varies across inputs. We introduce RISR, a residual-informed method that uses these error patterns to guide formula discovery and learn which corrections are worth fitting. A residual encoder compresses aligned inputs, targets, current predictions, and residuals into continuous tokens that condition a language model to propose formulas. For subsequent refinement, a dual-view relational encoder uses additive and regularized multiplicative residuals to predict the post-fit utility of candidate corrections. We evaluate RISR on scientific tasks from the LLM-SRBench. RISR achieves 63.57% and 38.50% ID accuracy at the 1% and 0.1% pointwise relative-error tolerances, respectively. The corresponding OOD accuracies are 56.07% and 38.24%. RISR outperforms the reported baselines using the same backbone. The results show that our residual-informed approach can improve numerical equation recovery.
[AI-105] Environmental Feedback Modeling Matters: Rethinking Feedback Treatment in Agent ic Hindsight Self-Distillation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11384
作者: Hangxi Guo,Fengyuan Liu,Yue Wang,Yuhua Qi,Haoyi Xiong,Fei Sun,Mengnan Du
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Reinforcement learning is commonly used to train language agents in interactive environments, but cannot be directly applied when rewards are unavailable. Recent methods use environmental feedback as privileged context for hindsight self-distillation, but our analysis suggests that simply conditioning the teacher on feedback is insufficient, motivating us to rethink how environmental feedback is used in agentic self-distillation. Given that environmental feedback contains rich supervision for modeling how the environment responds to agent actions, we introduce \textitagentic SElf-distilLation with environmental Feedback modeling (SELF), a framework that jointly optimizes environmental feedback modeling and hindsight self-distillation. SELF learns to predict environmental responses while distilling guidance from a feedback-conditioned self-teacher into the policy. Our analysis reveals a mutually reinforcing mechanism: environmental feedback modeling strengthens hindsight supervision and policy learning, while self-distillation enhances the model’s ability to model environmental feedback. With Qwen3-8B, SELF outperforms SDPO and GRPO by 6.4 and 4.1 percentage points in \tau -bench success rate, and by 10.71 and 3.57 percentage points in AppWorld task goal completion, respectively. These results show that SELF uses environmental feedback more effectively within agentic self-distillation, improving agent capabilities.
[AI-106] Equal Path Cost Unequal Output Effects: Understanding Perturbation Propagation in Diffusion Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11380
作者: Wei Guo,Yaowen Zhang,Xingtong Ge,Jun Zhang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling, with their sampling procedures routinely modified to control generation and improve efficiency. These modifications introduce perturbations along the sampling trajectory, raising a central question: how do such perturbations affect generated output? To address this question, we develop a theoretical framework to investigate perturbation propagation, combining dynamical analysis of the sampling process with an information-theoretic characterization of output responses. Within this framework, we quantify perturbation strength using the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence between perturbed and reference trajectory distributions, termed as path cost, which is shown to bound, but do not determine, changes in the output distribution. Building on this analysis, we derive a response identity that connects the propagation and accumulation of local perturbations with the information captured by a selected feature mean, explaining why changes in the output distribution can remain undetected by its first-order response. We test our theoretical analysis through controlled interventions at equal path cost in pretrained diffusion models, revealing distinct patterns of output sensitivity across sampling stages and spatial frequencies. To assess whether our framework can diagnose perturbations arising from practical approximations, we apply it to cache-based acceleration and show that our propagation analysis reliably identifies sampling intervals where caching causes larger image errors.
[AI-107] RaReCache: Bridging the Gap in Cross-Model KV Cache Reuse via Rank disagreement-based Selective Recomputation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11358
作者: Sreetama Sarkar,Saptarshi Mitra,Sitao Huang,Souvik Kundu,Peter A. Beerel
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Cross-model KV-cache reuse remains a key challenge in modern LLM serving. Coding agents and multi-model systems increasingly route a shared context across models: a user may switch models mid-session, or a cascade may escalate a difficult query. Because KV caches contain model-specific representations, each switch typically forces the receiving model to prefill the entire context from scratch. Recent work shows that closed-form linear maps can translate KV caches between models in the same family, but transfer accuracy degrades as the model-size gap widens. In this paper, we establish that these transfer failures are concentrated in a small subset of information-dense tokens. To bridge this gap, we introduce RaReCache, a framework that enables a large target model to decode accurately from a cache prefilled by a much smaller source via selective recomputation. RaReCache identifies these critical positions using a novel rank disagreement metric, scoring each token by the energy of its mapped KV in output directions weakly supported by the calibration data. Across two model families and five benchmarks, on a 23x parameter gap (Qwen3-0.6B to 14B) recomputing just 30% of positions retains 95-99% of the target accuracy, whereas on a 8.8x gap (Llama3-8B to 70B), recomputing 40% retains 96.5% of the target accuracy. RaReCache largely removes sensitivity to source-model size, and achieves up to a 3.04x prefill speedup. For online serving, it handles 1.8x the request throughput of target prefill on a single GPU, and at the target’s saturation load, reduces median and 99th-percentile time-to-first-token (TTFT) by 5.0x and 6.4x respectively, with a 30% recompute budget. RaReCache establishes an efficient serving paradigm where small models prefill on behalf of massive targets, enabling large models to recompute only critical tokens, drastically reducing prefill latency.
[AI-108] Writing for the Reviewer: Defensive Writing in GPT Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11355
作者: Junchi Liao
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Researchers increasingly use ChatGPT to revise their papers, and recent GPT versions often narrow or even retract the authors’ claims. We call such changes defensive writing when the given material does not support them, and we test two explanations: the model corrects the authors’ overclaiming, or it writes for an anticipated reviewer. We ask GPT versions and models from other developers to rewrite paragraphs from papers written before ChatGPT, or to write from an evidence sheet that lists a paper’s method and results. Defensive writing grows with GPT version. GPT-6-astra retracts the authors’ claims outright, and when it writes from the evidence sheet, it still adds the most ungrounded qualifications. The results favor the anticipated-review explanation, and correcting overclaiming explains only a small part. When the models are only asked to polish, defense stays near the level of the originals; mentioning review raises it, and one round of self-review raises it further. At the same time, fewer than one in ten of the claims GPT-6-astra retracts are overstated. AI reviewers score defensive rewrites higher, while human readers find them harder to read and the authors less certain. Combining AI writing with AI review may amplify this style.
[AI-109] SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLM s via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11345
作者: Wei Yang,Shawn Li,Yuehan Qin,Yawei Wang,Mingxi Wang,Shixuan Li,Tiankai Yang,Jiate Li,Jesse Thomason,Xuezhe Ma,Yue Zhao
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Self-evolving LLM agents promise to improve autonomously through continual interaction and learning, reducing their dependence on manually curated supervision. Realizing this promise requires not only updating the agent, but also evolving its training experience as its capabilities change. However, most existing pipelines rely on static datasets or separately updated synthesis models, causing previously useful tasks to become trivial while overly difficult tasks remain uninformative. This growing mismatch between agent capability and training experience limits sustained self-improvement. To address this problem, we propose SynCo, an agentic data synthesis co-training framework for self-evolving LLMs based on multi-agent reinforcement learning. SynCo jointly optimizes two independently parameterized agents: a Synthesizer that constructs training tasks from the Reasoner’s evolving capability state, and a Reasoner that learns from the resulting experience. Each synthesized task induces multiple Reasoner rollouts whose outcomes provide complementary rewards to both agents. Correctness feedback improves the Reasoner, while task quality, answer reliability, and outcome-grounded teachability guide the Synthesizer. Their updates are fed back into subsequent synthesis rounds, allowing the task-solving policy and its training distribution to evolve together. Extensive experiments across eight mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that SynCo substantially outperforms a broad range of existing synthetic-data methods and controlled baselines, achieving the strongest overall performance while deriving most of its gains from previously unsolved problems.
[AI-110] EvoSim: Learning to Model Modeling to Learn
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11344
作者: Yun-Wei Song,Jinkai Tao,Jun-Dong Zhang,Rui Zhang,Yi-Min Wu,Qiang Zhang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
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Abstract:Physics-based models connect scientific explanation with quantitative prediction. Constructing them requires selecting physical processes, defining states and governing equations, specifying couplings, and identifying parameters from experiments. Existing AI systems remain limited in making these model structure decisions autonomously. We introduce EvoSim, a self-evolving AI scientist for physical modeling. It uses experimental discrepancies to drive mechanism and equation revisions and held-out experimental data to test physical plausibility. Exploration traces make updates to knowledge, skills, and multi-agent orchestration. This co-evolution improves physics-based models and EvoSim’s ability to select mechanisms, diagnose failures, and coordinate research. We evaluate EvoSim on two industrial battery modeling tasks. It predicts lithium-metal-plating onset from 25 to 45 degrees Celsius and 2 C to 6 C with a mean absolute error of 1.79% in state of charge. Dynamic voltage prediction under vehicle driving conditions achieves a root mean square error of 7.62 mV, surpassing the reported accuracy of models developed by human experts. Self-evolution reduces model and physics errors by approximately 36% relative to baseline, demonstrating improved scientific modeling capability. EvoSim turns experimental observations into validated models and cumulative research expertise.
[AI-111] ReCast: Attribution-Oriented Step Representation Learning for LLM -Based Agent Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11334
作者: Weilin Jin,Mingyu Wang,Taiyu Zhu,Ziqi Zhou,Wenbo Li,Haoyang Huang,Nan Duan,Yifan Wu,Ying Li,Zhonghai Wu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:In LLM-based agent systems, failures can originate from early steps whose effects propagate through subsequent interactions, making their origins difficult to identify. To trace such failures back to their origin, failure attribution has been formulated as the task of identifying the earliest step responsible for the failure. Recent methods leverage LLM internal signals for failure attribution, typically using hidden states as step representations. We therefore conduct an empirical study to evaluate how effectively these representations distinguish root-cause steps from other steps and find limited separation. Motivated by this observation, we propose ReCast, a step representation learning method that transforms hidden states from a frozen LLM into attribution-oriented step representations. ReCast first selects attribution-relevant layers, then constructs complementary pattern and deviation features, and finally learns contextualized step representations through an encoder trained with contrastive and ranking objectives. We also introduce ReCast-2K, a training dataset for failure attribution. ReCast achieves the best Hit@1 across four benchmarks, surpassing the strongest baseline by 5.65 and 9.19 pp on WhoWhen Algorithm and Handcrafted, respectively. Code is available at this https URL .
[AI-112] okenBank: Financial Infrastructure for AI Services
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11333
作者: Cary Chang,Jialin Zhou
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
备注: The cloud infrastructure repository is available at this https URL . The hosted deployment can be accessed at this https URL
Abstract:AI services incur inference costs during execution, while revenue may arrive later. Changing API prices, limited upfront capital, and service failures can limit operators’ ability to sustain or expand their services. Beyond reducing per-request costs, operators need to plan future spending, fund execution before revenue arrives, and obtain compensation for specified losses. This requires clear agreements across services with different pricing and execution conditions. These agreements must distinguish rights to consume services from rights to receive payments, define obligations under uncertain costs and income, and specify which failures qualify for compensation and how much can be paid. We present TokenBank, a financial infrastructure that represents these commitments through structured contracts. It supports service-consumption rights, agreements that settle API-price differences in cash (forwards), financing through limited rights to future service revenue, and protection claims for specified service failures. Contracts specify participants, covered services, validity, ownership, fulfillment conditions, and settlement rules. Evaluation combines replay of 899,441 API requests, real model-driven agent execution, and contract API tests. In a zero-discount rising-price resampling scenario, forwards reduce mean expenditure by USD 304.88 but increase its standard deviation from USD 1,152.45 to USD 1,190.82. A controlled replication with five portfolios per capital condition finds mean contribution differences between financing and self-funding of +1.0635, -0.1406, and -0.2962 experimental USD under low, baseline, and ample capital, respectively. The evaluation distinguishes contract correctness from economic effectiveness under declared economic and failure assumptions; supplier invoices and commercial revenue are unavailable.
[AI-113] Mine Odyssey: Benchmarking Spatial Agent ic Intelligence in the Wild
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11328
作者: Yuxuan Cao,Junlong Li,Hao Li,Junxian He
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Advances in foundation models are driving efforts to introduce agents to assist people in the physical world. Such agents require agentic spatial intelligence: exploring unfamiliar environments, updating spatial understanding through interaction, and adapting actions based on feedback to sustain progress toward a sequence of goals. Existing benchmarks cover only a limited range of spatial layouts, scales, and traversal requirements. We introduce Mine Odyssey, a benchmark for evaluating agentic spatial intelligence using Minecraft reconstructions of real-world locations. It comprises 180 tasks covering 30 such locations across 20 countries and regions on five continents, including 20 outdoor and 10 indoor settings. These settings span diverse spatial scales, layouts, terrains, and connectivity patterns, from Midtown Manhattan and rural Entrup to Santa Lucía Hill and Buckingham Palace. We select meaningful waypoints, such as landmarks, buildings, and rooms, and manually verify their accessibility. Each task provides a natural-language instruction specifying which waypoints to visit and in what order. Completing these tasks requires agents to find accessible routes and entrances, open doors, and move between levels using stairs and ladders, while monitoring their progress and recovering from navigation errors. Across eight evaluated state-of-the-art models, GPT-6 Astra achieves the highest success rate of 85.6%. However, the second-best model, Claude Opus 5.5, completes 73.9% of tasks, while the strongest evaluated open-weight model, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, reaches 23.9%, highlighting substantial room for improvement in the agentic spatial intelligence of current models. Comprehensive analyses and ablation studies on Mine Odyssey reveal current models’ limitations and provide insights for advancing agentic spatial intelligence.
[AI-114] Finsler Flow Matching: Dynamics-Aware Geodesic Interpolation for Single-Snapshot Trajectory Inference
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11318
作者: Niklas Canova,Jonas Simon Fleck
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Single-cell snapshot data can resolve a continuum of cellular states but do not uniquely determine the dynamics governing transitions between them. However, additional dynamical information can often be encoded in a cell-cell Markov transition kernel. Existing generative approaches for single cell trajectory inference either infer transport only from population marginals, impose a symmetric geometry on the state space, or incorporate directionality through a single velocity vector at each observed state. We introduce Finsler Flow Matching (FFM), a framework for learning continuous stochastic dynamics from discrete Markov transition graphs. We use the first and second local moments to construct a Finsler structure motivated by the Freidlin–Wentzell action, where the second moment determines anisotropic accessibility and the first moment introduces a preferred direction of motion. We learn neural approximations of the resulting directed geodesics, use their Finsler cost to construct source-target couplings, and define geometry-aware stochastic conditional paths that can be distilled into a continuous generative process through simulation-free score and flow matching. Across synthetic and single-cell trajectory inference benchmarks, FFM improves recovery of withheld intermediate populations, particularly when the transition dynamics are strongly directional or anisotropic. Our results provide a principled route from discrete transition probabilities to continuous generative dynamics while retaining both directional and diffusive structure.
[AI-115] DivMoE: Fine-Grained MoE Upcycling via Cross-Domain Expert Composition NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11317
作者: Yuxuan Lou,Kai Yang,Geng Zhang,Yong Liu,Yang You
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 19 pages, published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have become essential for scaling large language models, with recent work demonstrating the benefits of fine-grained expert designs. Training such models from scratch is expensive, and sparse upcycling from pre-trained dense models is an attractive alternative. However, we identify a structural pathology of fine-grained upcycling: when fine-grained experts are derived from a single source model, naive routing collapses and downstream accuracy drops to near-random (e.g., on Qwen3-1.7B, Drop-Upcycling-fine-grained reaches only 23.2% average accuracy across 15 benchmarks, essentially matching from-scratch training at 22.2%, while the same method’s coarse-grained variant reaches 50.2%). We propose DivMoE, the first framework achieving fine-grained MoE Upcycling with structurally-balanced routing. DivMoE introduces domain-specialized fine-grained expert initialization, deriving experts from dense models that have undergone domain-adaptive continual pre-training, and diversity-constrained routing, a hard structural constraint guaranteeing that each token activates experts from distinct domain groups. Across two base models and 15 benchmarks, DivMoE consistently outperforms six upcycling baselines (55.6% vs. 51.6% for the strongest baseline on Qwen3-1.7B) and strictly improves over the dense base model on every benchmark after Stage 2 continual pre-training – closing the regression gap that has plagued prior fine-grained upcycling. After supervised fine-tuning on a public reasoning mixture, our 12B-parameter DivMoE model matches Moonlight-MoE (16B) at 64.5% average accuracy while outperforming a controlled NVIDIA-Upcycling baseline by 6.1 percentage points.
[AI-116] MedBenchAgent : Towards Systematic Automation of Medical VLM Benchmark Construction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11312
作者: Yulin Fu(1),Junren Wang(2 and 3),Guangjing Yang(1),Zhangyuan Yu(1),Wanran Sun(1),Jiabao Zhou(1),Jin Yin(2 and 3),Qicheng Lao(1) ((1) Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, (2) West China Hospital, (3) Sichuan Provincial Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Diseases)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 25 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:Large-scale construction of medical vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks is increasingly feasible with richly annotated imaging datasets and large language models (LLMs), yet existing automation largely focuses on generating evaluation items within predefined benchmark specifications. We study the broader problem of automatically deriving the specification itself: what to evaluate, which annotations support each task, and how to translate this evidence into reliable evaluation items. We formulate benchmark construction as constrained compilation, in which the benchmark specification is progressively derived from evaluation requirements, heterogeneous annotations, and medical knowledge. Based on this formulation, we introduce MedBenchAgent, a multi-agent framework with a Benchmark Intermediate Representation (BIR) that encodes task definitions, evidence mappings, evaluation protocols, and item specifications across construction stages. MedBenchAgent separates planning, which derives and verifies the specification, from instantiation, which constructs and audits items under the locked specification. MedBenchAgent achieves a Task-Space F1 of 90.9%, outperforming direct task induction (79.2-80.0%) and prior-guided induction (85.1%); 994 of 1,000 sampled items from correctly identified tasks pass human audit. We further demonstrate portability to a specialized medical domain and evaluate twelve VLMs, revealing task- and setting-specific variation obscured by aggregate scores. These results establish constrained compilation as a scalable and auditable framework for medical VLM benchmark construction beyond question generation.
[AI-117] From Geometry to Generalization: Why Row Normalization Can Beat Adam and Muon
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11309
作者: Jihwan Kim,Dogyoon Song,Chulhee Yun
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
备注: 90 pages, 9 figures
Abstract:Different optimizers can fit the same training data while selecting classifiers with substantially different geometries, but whether this difference provably affects population performance remains unclear. We show that row-wise normalization can achieve strictly higher population accuracy than full-batch Adam, a proxy for random-reshuffling Adam, and exact-SVD Muon in high-dimensional multiclass classification. Under an isotropic Gaussian-cloud data model, this advantage arises because row normalization’s class-wise Euclidean geometry asymptotically preserves the population decision-boundary directions, whereas Adam’s coordinate-wise geometry and Muon’s spectral geometry introduce nonvanishing distortions. Beyond isotropy, the advantage persists for full-batch training on class means with independently oriented class-mean and test-noise covariances. It holds for power-law spectra with class-mean exponent below one, even under heavily anisotropic test noise. When both covariances are diagonal and sufficiently close, the advantage over Adam can reverse, while applying the same random rotation to both restores it by changing only their alignment with Adam’s coordinate axes. Synthetic and last-layer language-model experiments support the predicted advantage.
[AI-118] Characterizing Overconfident Failure in LLM -Based Code Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11300
作者: Ravishka Rathnasuriya,Wei Yang
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated code generation, but generated programs can appear syntactically plausible while still failing execution-based correctness checks. Existing validation methods, such as testing and program analysis, remain essential but are often incomplete, costly, or applied only after generation. Model-derived uncertainty is therefore a natural early reliability signal. This paper studies the dilemma of overconfidence in code LLMs where incorrect programs are often generated with token-level confidence comparable to correct programs. We study this dilemma across four open-source code models and three execution-based benchmarks. Our analysis begins by investigating whether existing uncertainty metrics provide reliable proxies for execution correctness in code generation. We then characterize overconfidence at both global and local token levels, asking whether incorrect programs remain indistinguishable from correct ones under confidence and entropy summaries, including selective generation and the limits of instruction tuning. Finally, we evaluate whether common mitigation strategies reduce this failure mode. Our study yields four findings. First, existing uncertainty signals provide only partial and model-dependent evidence of execution failure. Second, overconfidence persists at both program and token levels, and uncertainty-based selection does not consistently improve accepted-set accuracy. Third, instruction tuning can increase certainty on failing generations without consistently improving correctness discrimination. Fourth, common mitigation techniques improve specific aspects of reliability but do not reliably resolve overconfident failure. Our exploratory latent analysis suggests that hidden representations may encode correctness-related signals that output confidence does not expose.
[AI-119] DuplexAgent -RSI: Recursive Harness Improvement for Full-Duplex Voice Agent Collaboration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11299
作者: Yingda Shen,Yuxiang Wang,Kunyu Feng,Qinke Ni,Jiaqi Li,Minghao Hsu,Junan Zhang,Dekun Chen,Yutong Bian,Zhizheng Wu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Sound (cs.SD)
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Abstract:Voice agents are converging on a collaboration pattern: a full-duplex interaction model stays on the live channel as the entry to the conversation, while search, reasoning, and coding are handled through asynchronous delegation. A duplex model supports continuous listening and speaking, but complex reasoning and tool use may exceed its capabilities. A coding agent can plan and execute extended tasks, but its sequential interface is a poor fit for live conversation. Combining them requires a harness that coordinates task acceptance, progress, cancellation, replacement, and result delivery while keeping the conversation responsive. Existing harnesses often rely on coupled heuristics, making them difficult to improve systematically from evidence. We present DuplexAgent, a full-duplex collaboration system whose harness expresses this workflow as six editable modules, and Duplex-Harness-RSI, a closed loop that revises them from interaction traces. A simulator automatically generates timed test conversations, runs the system, and produces failure traces that identify the collaboration modules requiring repair. Reasoning LLMs and coding agents in the delegation pool also serve the improvement loop: the Exam Planner selects the next tests from observed weaknesses and the repair archive, and the Harness Editor proposes targeted module changes. The capabilities that serve the user thus also improve the system’s coordination. Experiments on intelligence, agentic, and duplex benchmarks show that DuplexAgent combines continuous interaction with difficult reasoning and complex task execution, achieving stronger spoken-knowledge and executable-tool scores than the compared delegated systems while maintaining strong interruption response. A harness ablation further shows that this modular, verifiable loop outperforms the initial harness and repeated editing that lacks its diagnosis and repair archive.
[AI-120] ORDO: Operation-level Round-aware Dynamic Ordering for MIP Presolve
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11294
作者: Zehuan Chen,Chunhe Song
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Presolve strongly affects mixed-integer programming (MIP) performance, yet learning-based methods only optimize parameter configurations and cannot express the non-commutative temporal dependencies among actions, whose default order is nearly unique on most domains, yet functionally necessary: artificially shuffling the order of the same sequence inflates the tail of the solve-time distribution by up to several-fold. We recast presolve planning as autoregressive sequence generation over a unified atomic action space, moving the decision object to action sequences; we call this framework ORDO—Operation-level Round-aware Dynamic Ordering for MIP Presolve. Its payoff is cross-domain generalization: on multiple unseen domains it attains end-to-end zero-shot speedup—to our knowledge the first for presolve action sequences—varying by domain and not explained by corpus richness, the strongest domain reaching the largest speedup once racing is added. Deployment uses sequence racing, in which candidate sequences run concurrently and the winner is kept, enabled by an execution-and-observation facility, added by modifying the SCIP source, that injects sequences along the native path and records which actions actually execute and in which round.
[AI-121] Open-ended Scientific Discovery with Possibilistic Reasoning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11289
作者: Anita Yang,Siu Lun Chau,Tomoya Wakayama,Krikamol Muandet,Masaki Adachi
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Autonomous scientific discovery with LLMs requires generating and testing hypotheses adaptively as evidence accumulates while maintaining statistical validity. Existing anytime-valid methods can handle data-dependent hypotheses, but open-ended discovery poses a deeper challenge: the best discovered hypothesis may still be the best of a bad lot, with better explanations yet undiscovered, while even background knowledge such as physical laws may require revision in light of new findings. In response, we formalize the problem as Abductive Autonomous Scientific Discovery (AASD) using possibility theory. We introduce abductive utility, a computable measure of discovery progress, and possibility frontier search, the first algorithm for AASD, which maintains anytime validity and achieves \varepsilon -optimal abductive utility asymptotically under suitable conditions. Experiments on synthetic and real-world scientific-discovery tasks show strong performance.
[AI-122] DynaTE: Accelerating Diffusion LLM s via Dynamic Token Execution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11284
作者: Minghan Jiang,Jiayi Wang,Shuaiting Li,Haibin Shen,Kejie Huang
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs by enabling bidirectional parallel refinement, alleviating the sequential decoding bottleneck of AR generation. However, their parallel iterative refinement mismatches AR accelerators optimized for sequential decoding and their discrete token generation differs from DiT accelerators designed for continuous denoising. Recent dLLM accelerators have explored workload-specific optimizations to reduce vocabulary processing overhead and redundant computation across denoising iterations. However, these approaches retain all tokens in parallel execution, despite varying token refinement utility and execution requirements. This paper presents DynaTE, a hardware–software co-design architecture that dynamically adapts accelerator execution to evolving token states during dLLM decoding. DynaTE first enables adaptive token execution by skipping low-utility token computation, while a dimension-reconfigurable PE array maintains high utilization under varying active-token patterns. Second, DynaTE exploits dynamic token dependencies through FLDD to refine a small number of locally dependent tokens within the current iteration, reducing the overall number of denoising iterations, while a Merge–Split–Merge dataflow hides the resulting serial overhead. Third, a streaming vocabulary engine interleaves multiple token streams from the LM head to accommodate irregular output variations caused by selective token computation and uneven vocabulary-selection demands. Evaluated on two representative dLLMs, DynaTE achieves 2.05–2.78 \times speedup and 2.99–3.93 \times higher energy efficiency over state-of-the-art dLLM accelerators, while delivering 2.55 \times speedup and 6.07 \times higher energy efficiency over Jetson AGX Orin. Subjects: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11284 [cs.AR] (or arXiv:2610.11284v1 [cs.AR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11284 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-123] How to post-train on a surrogate: Envelope sampling mitigates reward hacking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11281
作者: Sanjit Dandapanthula,Shuvom Sadhuka,Samir Khan,Michael Oberst,Aaditya Ramdas,Alexandra Chouldechova
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Methodology (stat.ME)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are commonly post-trained against LLM judges and other cheap surrogates because the true reward, such as human preference, is too expensive to query at scale. This practice often leads to reward hacking, where reinforcement learning against a miscalibrated surrogate leads to undesirable side effects. In this work, we study a setting in which a small number n of model outputs are annotated with ground-truth labels (e.g., from expert review) and used to recalibrate the LLM judge before optimizing against it. Prior approaches to judge recalibration are costly or heuristic, and it is known that on-policy sampling fails when the surrogate is miscalibrated on a rare set of outputs. In this work, we propose envelope sampling, a theoretically-grounded method for judge recalibration that seeks to minimize an upper bound on the regret of the post-trained model under the assumption that the human reward and re-calibrated reward lie in an L^2 ball around the judge. We give practical algorithms to sample from the envelope by rejection or by fine-tuning against a modified reward, and experiments on clinical note generation and on a controlled sycophancy task show that recalibrating on envelope samples mitigates reward hacking where recalibrating on base-model samples does not.
[AI-124] aReD: Tool-Aware Recursive Decomposition for Long-Horizon Tasks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11268
作者: Wei-Xiang Mao,Zhi-Kai Chen,De-Chuan Zhan,Han-Jia Ye
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 15 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Abstract:Agents combine reasoning with tools to interact with external systems and complete real-world tasks. Early agents typically interleave reasoning and actions along a single execution chain. On complex tasks, this chain becomes unreliable because growing histories obscure intermediate dependencies and allow early planning errors to propagate. Recursively decomposing a complex task into smaller subtasks offers a natural solution, yet effective decomposition must account for the system’s capabilities so that each subtask can be executed by the available tools. In realistic systems, however, tool libraries can be too large to expose in full. Injecting every tool description consumes substantial context while making relevant tools harder to retrieve and useful task boundaries harder to identify. We propose tool-aware recursive decomposition, which organizes tools by functional relationships into a hierarchy of capabilities. During execution, the agent discovers tools on demand and uses the hierarchy to recursively decompose a complex task into a subtask tree whose levels are aligned with the capabilities required at each stage. Experiments on complex real-world tasks show that the proposed method improves end-to-end task success rate by up to 40 percentage points over the compared baselines. The implementation of TaReD is available on GitHub: this https URL.
[AI-125] LLM -IDEA: Identifiability-Driven Experimental Agent for Autonomous Discovery of Mechanistic World Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11253
作者: Surya Shetty,Ulisses Braga-Neto
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language model agents are being increasingly deployed as autonomous scientists, designing experiments and inferring mechanistic world models with minimal human oversight. Yet identifiability is often overlooked: when a plateau is reached, the agent needs to know whether it is not yet capable enough or the model simply is not identifiable from the data, in which case no amount of further experimentation of the same kind can help. We propose the Identifiability-Driven Experimental Agent (LLM-IDEA) for closed-loop discovery with an identifiability engine that returns a three-way plateau verdict: capability limit, resolvable within the design class, or certified exhausted. On ODEBench, 60 of the 62 systems with free constants are identifiable at round 0; the RC circuit is certified exhausted for every experiment that protocol can run, and a harvesting model is resolvable by one added initial condition. The identifiability engine reproduces known verdicts on Lotka-Volterra, Van der Pol, Lorenz, and a pharmacokinetic model, where it recommends the intravenous arm pharmacologists use, and it ranks the depth scorer of our own benchmark last among four observation designs. On the DiscoverPhysics benchmark, it finds two public worlds whose explanation rubric rewards a distinction no legal experiment can make, and every model there with accurate trajectories failed the explanation grade (15 of 15, against 5 of 9 in identifiable worlds, p = 0.012). On the Alien Universe, a two-body testbed we propose in which a force law switches between a provably non-identifiable and an identifiable protocol, LLM-IDEA on the identifiable protocol reaches discovery depth at least three on 8/8 seeds versus 1/8 without it. An autonomous discovery agent can thus compute, rather than guess, whether a plateau calls for more search, a better experiment of the same kind, or a different kind of experiment.
[AI-126] Neuro-Memory Fuzzy Inference System for Mimicking Human-like Car Following Behavior
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11252
作者: Nazmul Haque,Md Asif Raihan. Md. Hadiuzzaman
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 20 Pages
Abstract:This study presents the Neuro-Memory Fuzzy Inference System (NeMeFIS), a hierarchical machine learning architecture that asymmetrically models acceleration and deceleration in car following behavior by integrating five human memory types procedural, working, episodic, semantic, and declarative. By linking external variables to memory functions via metaheuristics and validating them through factor and p-value analyses, NeMeFIS uncovers latent cognitive influences across Arterial, Collector, and Rural Highway corridors for different types of vehicles. Results from 54 different trained models emphasize cognitive thresholds shaped by driver perception limits and cognitive load. The trained NeMeFIS models outperform traditional statistical and conventional machine learning models in replicating realistic driving behavior, including comparisons with Linear Regression, ANFIS, and LSTM architectures. Fuzzy rule analysis reveals that declarative memory demands the highest rule, especially during deceleration, indicating complex braking decisions. Procedural memory drives acceleration, while semantic and declarative memory guide deceleration. Risk perception also emerges as a key factor, particularly on urban roads. Validated on both heterogeneous and homogeneous datasets, NeMeFIS offers a robust framework for modeling driver cognition. The findings support psychotherapeutic applications and the development of adaptive, human-like decision systems in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) to enhance traffic safety.
[AI-127] When Lower Reconstruction Loss Hurts: Distributionally Robust Refinement for Low-Bit LLM Quantization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11226
作者: Yanlong Zhao,Xiaoyuan Cheng,Huihang Liu,Baihua He,Xinyu Zhang,Harrison Bo Hua Zhu,Wenlong Chen,Li Zeng,Zhuo Sun
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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Abstract:Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) relies heavily on reconstruction loss minimization to preserve model quality at low precision. We show that the weights favored by minimizing this loss need not yield better model performance on new tasks. In fact, we find that lower reconstruction loss can even degrade model performance on the same calibration data. Our analysis further shows that weights with lower reconstruction loss on calibration data can have higher loss than other weights when the distribution of input activations changes. Motivated by these observations and our analysis, we propose Distributionally Robust Quantization (DRQ), a post-hoc refinement process that minimizes worst-case reconstruction loss over a constrained set of input activation distributions. DRQ refines the integer codes representing quantized weights within the existing quantization grid, keeping quantization parameters and inference operators unchanged. Extensive experiments show that DRQ improves models quantized by six representative PTQ methods, including AWQ, GPTQ, and ParoQuant, and delivers gains across both dense and mixture-of-experts large language models. These results establish DRQ as a general post-hoc refinement framework for weight-only PTQ, achieving better downstream performance without adding inference overhead.
[AI-128] AliO: Output Alignment Matters in Long-Term Time Series Forecasing NEURIPS2025
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11213
作者: Kwangryeol Park,Jaeho Kim,Seulki Lee
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: NeurIPS 2025. 46 pages
Abstract:Long-term Time Series Forecasting (LTSF) tasks, which leverage the current data sequence as input to predict the future sequence, have become increasingly crucial in real-world applications such as weather forecasting and planning of electricity consumption. However, state-of-the-art LTSF models often fail to achieve prediction output alignment for the same timestamps across lagged input sequences. Instead, these models exhibit low output alignment, resulting in fluctuation in prediction outputs for the same timestamps, undermining the model’s reliability. To address this, we propose AliO (Align Outputs), a novel approach designed to improve the output alignment of LTSF models by reducing the discrepancies between prediction outputs for the same timestamps in both the time and frequency domains. To measure output alignment, we introduce a new metric, TAM (Time Alignment Metric), which quantifies the alignment between prediction outputs, whereas existing metrics such as MSE only capture the distance between prediction outputs and ground truths. Experimental results show that AliO effectively improves the output alignment, i.e., up to 58.2% in TAM, while maintaining or enhancing the forecasting performance (up to 27.5%). This improved output alignment increases the reliability of the LTSF models, making them more applicable in real-world scenarios.
[AI-129] What to Admit and How to Present: Governing Persistent Memory in LLM Agents AAMAS2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11188
作者: Chang Liu,Deliang Ding
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Under review at AAMAS 2027
Abstract:Persistent memory can improve personalization in LLM agents but can also induce sycophancy and cross-domain leakage. We distinguish two governance decisions: admission, which determines what recalled information enters the working context, and presentation, which determines how admitted information is expressed. We implement two inference-time designs without retraining: factor-compiled admission (FC), which assesses whole memory entries, and permission-semantic admission (PS), which decomposes entries into typed units; both translate adjudicated attributes into eligibility decisions via deterministic policies. We evaluate on a four-backbone development suite and an external benchmark with four tasks of 300 samples each. Relative to verbatim injection, FC and PS reduce pooled judge-assessed failure rates on the external benchmark by 6.7 and 8.8 percentage points (p = 2.7e-7 and 4.1e-12), and development-set cross-domain leakage falls by up to 29.5 percentage points. A query-conditioned gating baseline shows no significant change in objective-fact failure or pooled failure. Under matched admission budgets, PS outperforms random and relevance-based selection on external objective-fact judgment after Holm correction. Holding presentation fixed, tightening admission cuts cross-domain failure by a further 17.5 percentage points (p = 1.6e-4); in contrast, no comparison between two renderings of identical adjudicated outputs survives multiple-comparison correction. Both designs increase personalization failures, and PS misses the preregistered improvement and personalization-preservation criteria. These results support evaluating admission and presentation separately: selection quality provides task-specific safety gains, while preserving beneficial memory use remains unresolved.
[AI-130] Higher-Order Action Supervision Makes A Strong Policy Class NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11175
作者: Peng Cheng,Yunxian Hou,Zhi Zhou,Qian Zhang,Chang Huang,Xianyuan Zhan
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 34 pages, 7 figures. Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Modern data-driven decision-making methods, such as imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL), have achieved great success in solving many complex tasks. However, these methods often suffer from serious control instability and robustness issues when applied in real-world applications such as robotics and autonomous driving, posing notable challenges for their practical deployment. We argue that this instability issue stems largely from their limitations in solely supervising and optimizing zeroth-order actions (i.e., the action labels), failing to account for higher-order action dynamics and temporal consistency. In this paper, we show that simultaneously supervising both zeroth- and first-order actions can dramatically enhance policies’ performance and control robustness. To achieve this, we introduce a novel and elegant loss scheme supported by formal theoretical guarantees that can equip any off-the-shelf policy model (e.g., deterministic, stochastic, or flow policies) with the capability for higher-order action supervision, without requiring any structural modifications. Moreover, our proposed method can serve as a lightweight plug-and-play module that seamlessly integrates with a broad spectrum of existing offline RL frameworks. Extensive evaluations on OGBench and D4RL demonstrate that our approach yields substantial performance and robustness improvements across a wide range of continuous control environments. Notably, our method can also enhance policies’ out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization capability in the challenging low-data regime, making it an ideal tool in tackling many real-world control problems.
[AI-131] PMTRM: Pseudo-Memory Temporal Re-encoding Module for Embodied Policy Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11168
作者: Changchuan Yang,Haoxuan Xu,Wenbo Chen,Shuai Ren,Jianlong Zheng,Huarui Zhang,Tianfu Li,Guanzhong Tian
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Robotic manipulation often contains repeated motions whose local observations look similar at different phases. When these phases require different actions, a policy that relies mainly on the current observation may repeat completed motions or switch phases at the wrong time. To address this phase ambiguity, we present the Pseudo-Memory Temporal Re-encoding Module (PMTRM), a lightweight plug-in module with only 7.61M parameters that encodes a bounded history of executed states and actions into a latent sequence for existing policies. To help distinguish phases, a temporal heterogeneity objective penalizes positive similarity between distant positions in this sequence, while anchor and reconstruction losses preserve information needed for action prediction. The reconstruction decoder is used only during training, leaving the temporal re-encoder to supply history to the policy at inference. We train the module progressively on synthetic sequences and robot data, then jointly with the policy, using temporal masking to accommodate partial histories. This integration retains the original action head and action space and adds auxiliary losses to the original policy loss. Experiments with multiple policy backbones in simulation and on a real robot show improved task success on tasks with phase ambiguity, with little additional computation.
[AI-132] PIVOT: Perplexity-Informed KD-to-RL Transition Scheduling for Vertical-Domain Few-Shot Distillation EMNLP2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11167
作者: Heng Li,Yong Zhang,Ning Cheng,Zhigen Li,Yun Zhu,Yanmeng Wang,Shaojun Wang,Jing Xiao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026
Abstract:Vertical-domain few-shot classification remains challenging for small language models, as limited supervision makes it difficult to acquire domain-specific decision knowledge. On-Policy Distillation (OPD) can improve teacher-guided adaptation by supervising student-generated rollouts, while GRPO-based reinforcement learning can further refine downstream predictions. However, existing KD-to-RL pipelines typically rely on globally fixed transition schedules, ignoring that different samples may require different amounts of teacher-guided acquisition before reward-driven refinement. We propose PIVOT (Perplexity-Informed Transition Optimization), a dynamic transition framework that routes samples between OPD and GRPO according to teacher-evaluated sequence perplexity. PIVOT moves low-perplexity samples to GRPO for reward-driven refinement while keeping high-perplexity samples under OPD for continued domain knowledge acquisition. Experiments on Banking77 and HWU64 show that PIVOT consistently outperforms continued OPD and globally synchronized OPD \rightarrow GRPO baselines under the same number of post-warm-up student optimization steps, achieving stronger downstream performance and more stable training dynamics.
[AI-133] Characterizing Statistical Separability in TP-CRIV for Probabilistic AI Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11163
作者: Teruki Sano,Minoru Kuribayashi,Masao Sakai,Shuji Isobe,Eisuke Koizumi,Zhang Zhang,Satoru Matsumoto
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Third-party challenge-response identity verification (TP-CRIV) enables an independent verifier to assess whether a claimant possesses a model identical to a remotely deployed model without directly accessing the reference model. However, for probabilistic AI models, repeated executions of the same query may produce different outputs and therefore different verification observations. This raises the question of how such stochastic evidence should be accumulated and how much evidence is required for reliable verification. In this work, we characterize statistical separability in TP-CRIV of probabilistic AI models. Specifically, we relate challenge-wise behavior of matching and non-matching provers to verification-level separability. The characterization explicitly describes how the numbers of independent challenges and repeated responses affect detection performance and enables the verification budget required for a target AUC to be estimated. We instantiate the proposed characterization for LLMs using open-ended challenges. The experiments demonstrate matching-non-matching separation, close agreement between theoretical and empirical AUCs, and consistent estimates of the minimum verification budgets. These results provide a statistical basis for relating probabilistic model behavior to verification-level separability and the evidence required for third-party verification. Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11163 [cs.CR] (or arXiv:2610.11163v1 [cs.CR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11163 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-134] Social Pain Disrupts Emotion-Action Brain-State Dynamics in Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11155
作者: Ying Xu,Xiaojun Liang,Li Zhang,Yixuan Yuan,Gan Huang,Yongjie Zhou,Zhen Liang
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is prevalent among adolescents with depression, but the rapid brain-state dynamics linking social distress to maladaptive behavior remain unclear. We combine an experimental pain paradigm, electroencephalography (EEG) microstate analysis, and interpretable deep sequence modeling to investigate NSSI-related neurodynamics in 106 adolescents with depression, including 67 with NSSI (DN+) and 39 without NSSI (DN-), during social pain, physical pain, and resting-state conditions. A model integrating disease-specific, domain-adversarial, consistency, and contrastive learning captures higher-order dependencies in microstate sequences. Social pain yields the strongest NSSI discrimination, with 68.55% accuracy, outperforming the best baseline by 8.94% points. Model interpretation and conventional microstate analyses reveal weakened bidirectional transitions between MS3 and MS5 in DN+ adolescents during social pain. Source reconstruction associates MS3 with emotional/interoceptive processing and MS5 with action preparation, suggesting disrupted emotion-action coupling. Time-resolved analyses show greater early-to-middle action-state recruitment and later emotion-state recruitment in DN+ adolescents. In DN- adolescents, MS5-to-MS3 dynamics mediate associations between social-evaluation sensitivity and affective outcomes, whereas this mediation is absent in DN+; conversely, MS3-to-MS5 transitions are associated with greater negative affect in DN+. Together, these findings identify disrupted emotion-action coupling as a key neurodynamic mechanism underlying altered social pain processing in adolescents with NSSI, providing a mechanistically interpretable neural signature for objective identification of NSSI.
[AI-135] Balancing Reference Guidance and Free Generation in Trajectory Rollouts for Reasoning RL
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11128
作者: Hanyu Wang,Nakul Agarwal,Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub,Ehsan Moradi Pari,Makoto Fukushima,Jinghui Chen,Vaishnav Tadiparthi
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:A verified reference solution provides a correct trajectory for training a reasoning model. Alternatively, a prefix of the reference can guide the model in generating a trajectory of its own. How much reference guidance should we provide? We study this question through prefix continuation, where the model continues from a reference prefix and keeps the resulting trajectory if it passes verification, falling back to the reference otherwise. Since both procedures produce correct trajectories, we compare their distributions with the ideal distribution, the model’s own distribution conditioned on successful verification. For one continuation, we derive the KL divergence in closed form, which, up to a bounded term, decreases with the product of the probability of generating a different correct trajectory and the reference surprisal, the negative log probability of the reference suffix given the prefix. Since a longer prefix tends to raise the former but lowers the latter, continuation success alone does not determine the preferred amount of guidance. From this analysis, we learn a prefix selector shared across training questions from continuation outcomes, without estimating success probabilities or additional generation. The resulting Adaptive Reference Guidance (ARG) constructs correct trajectories within a fixed generation budget, and we apply it to all-failure groups in Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). Experiments on Qwen3-4B and Qwen3-8B across five mathematical reasoning benchmarks show that ARG achieves the highest aggregate pass@12 among the evaluated methods with competitive average sampled accuracy.
[AI-136] When Interfaces Speak: Data-Aware Generative UI Harness for Active Interaction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11123
作者: Xiaolong Li,Xiaohan Xu,Jinyang Li,Xinnuo Xu,Ge Qu,Nan Huo,Jack Williams,Reynold Cheng
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 35 pages, 7 figures. Code: this https URL
Abstract:Most human-agent interaction today remains text-based. Natural language can impose cognitive overload, ambiguity, information chaos, and slow input for complex tasks; ephemeral generative UIs can present structured information and guide users toward task completion. We propose GenUI-Harness, a multi-agent harness pairing a Tool Agent for information retrieval and task execution with a GUI Coder Agent that identifies ambiguities and generates front-end code for structured interfaces. Training the coder with reinforcement learning is challenging: verifiable rewards for interactive UI generation require costly execution, while LLM-as-a-Judge rewards are prone to reward hacking. We address the first challenge with Dynamic UX, a lightweight package for dynamic interaction and reward collection in a single sandbox, and the second with Reward Auditor, a meta-reward mechanism that monitors reward distributions and distills diagnostic patterns into a shared rubric and scoring specification. We introduce UI-TAU Bench, a benchmark for active human-agent interaction through generated UI code, built on 10 real-world domain databases constructed from public data sources and based on Tau-Bench tool-use settings, with Lite (300 tasks) and Full (1,000 tasks) splits. GenUI-Harness achieves an average Pass@3 gain of 4.48 percentage points over smolagents on Lite. Training with GenUI-Harness improves a 4B backbone from 9.33% to 58.00% Pass@3, outperforming larger frontier models such as Claude Opus 5 (46.67%). GenUI-Harness also remains robust on ambiguous and non-ambiguous queries. In a reviewer survey comparing communication channels, generated UIs reduce average dialogue rounds from 3.4 to 1.2. These results show that data-aware generative interfaces can support effective task completion and reduce dialogue rounds in evaluated database-backed workflows.
[AI-137] OpenProblemBench: Benchmarking AI on Open Problems in the Foundational Theoretical Sciences
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11118
作者: Zhiyi Li,Sihan Hu,Tianning Xiao,Xiansheng Cai,Xiaojun Tan,Youjin Deng,Kun Chen
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 21 pages, 4 figures, including appendices
Abstract:The next frontier for artificial general intelligence is tackling unresolved scientific problems, calling for benchmarks that assess progress beyond established knowledge. We introduce OpenProblemBench, a benchmark of 82 unresolved problems drawn from the mathematics and theoretical physics literature. Each problem supplies the research context, assumptions, and prior progress needed to investigate the question. We select problems whose proposed solutions admit comparatively clear checks of their decisive mathematical or computational claims. Four evaluator models independently assess the correctness, completeness, and degree of progress of each submission without reference solutions. Across seven evaluated configurations, GPT-6-Astra achieves the highest mean judged solve rate of 14.0%, compared with 5.5-6.7% for the evaluated full-size open models and 2.4-3.7% for Flash models. Case comparisons connect stronger outcomes to changes in problem representation, general arguments that extend beyond finite evidence, and proofs of the steps needed to complete a solution. By grounding evaluation in questions arising from the research literature, OpenProblemBench provides a setting for investigating the capabilities and limitations of AI as a contributor to foundational theoretical science.
[AI-138] Beyond Imitation: A Framework and Benchmark for LLM -Assisted Peer Review
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11087
作者: Rachel S.Y. Teo,Yutaro Yamada,Shashank Kotyan,Yuki Imajuku,Tarin Clanuwat
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The rapid growth of scientific publishing has strained peer review, particularly in machine learning, raising concerns about declining review quality and increasing reviewer workload. Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as automated review assistants, yet their evaluation has focused largely on imitating human-written reviews rather than supporting the core functions of peer review. Here, we introduce a verification-centric perspective on LLM-assisted peer review, emphasizing error detection as a critical and resource-intensive task. We present a scalable benchmark that evaluates review systems’ ability to identify logical contradictions, constructed through synthetic insertion of errors into conference papers, yielding unambiguous evaluation targets and enabling systematic comparison. We further propose a Multi-Layered Review (MLR) framework that prioritizes detailed manuscript comprehension before review generation, aligning more closely with human reviewing practices while improving token efficiency. Across evaluations, our approach demonstrates strong alignment with human review scores, achieves high error detection performance, and provides complementary perspectives on reviewer focus. These improvements can be attributed to both the choice of the underlying LLM and the design of our system. At the same time, we corroborate persistent vulnerabilities to adversarial manipulation, underscoring the need for robustness in automated review systems. Our findings highlight the importance of rigorous, error-focused evaluation to guide responsible deployment of LLM-based tools in peer review and other critical scientific workflows.
[AI-139] Stability-Plasticity Balance via Singular-Vector Selection in LLM Continual Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11076
作者: Lingxiang Wang,Hainan Zhang,Liang Pang,Hongwei Zheng,Zhiming Zheng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Domain-specific continual adaptation of LLMs risks catastrophic forgetting, creating a fundamental tension between acquiring new capabilities and preserving those learned during pretraining. PEFT mitigates this problem by restricting the number of trainable parameters, but existing methods lack a principled unit for deciding where plasticity should be allocated and stability should be preserved. We identify the singular-vector channel as a natural unit for managing this trade-off. Each channel represents an input-output transformation, which can be updated to acquire new knowledge or fixed to preserve pretrained capabilities. Based on this perspective, we introduce SVC, a parameter-efficient continual-learning method that selectively updates Singular-Vector Channels. Before fine-tuning, SVC uses domain-specific data to estimate each channel’s adaptation benefit and a fixed public general-domain corpus only as a history activation proxy for estimating forgetting cost. It then adaptively selects trainable channels based on these scores via knee-based cost screening, Pareto-front filtering, and Otsu thresholding. Experimental results across four LLM families and eight downstream tasks show that SVC better preserves pretrained capabilities while achieving strong downstream performance relative to existing PEFT baselines. Further analysis of channel scoring and selection demonstrates that selective plasticity at the singular-vector-channel level enables effective continual LLM adaptation.
[AI-140] Emergent Inverse-Depth Scaling From Nonlinearity In Attention
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11063
作者: Zirui Peng,Yizhou Liu,Ziming Liu,Jeff Gore
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 30 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables
Abstract:Scaling laws describe power-law improvements in model performance with dataset size and parameter count, yet their underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. To explain the parameter count scaling, existing theory posits power-law scaling with model depth. In linear-attention models, this scaling is tied to a power-law data spectrum: unable to selectively attend to relevant tokens, these models learn according to global spectral strength, with stronger directions learned before weaker ones. Large language models, however, can be strongly nonlinear. Here, we show that nonlinear attention yields inverse-depth decay of loss across all tested data spectra. Nonlinearity enables attention to focus selectively on relevant tokens, allowing strong and weak spectral directions to be learned in parallel. Similar focusing across layers motivates a connection to the central limit theorem: shared error across layers sets the loss plateau, while aggregation turns layer-specific differences into continued gains with depth. Our findings suggest that depth scaling may arise from nonlinearity in attention, which allows large language models to focus locally and may make the global covariance structure less relevant.
[AI-141] Agent Horizon: Evaluating Agent ic Judges for Long-Horizon Computer-Use Tasks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11050
作者: Xing Han Lù,Dheeraj Vattikonda,Sina Hajimiri,Fatemeh Pesaran Zadeh,Parishad BehnamGhader,Ghazwa Darwiche,Amirhossein Kazemnejad,Christopher Pal,Alexandre Drouin,Siva Reddy
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Computer-use agents are capable of completing complex tasks, increasing the use of automatic judges to determine success, either for training or for evaluation without human involvement. Despite their flexibility, their reliability on long tasks spanning multiple applications remains unclear. A trajectory, composed of long sequences of screenshots and actions, may appear complete, but in reality violates constraints from the instruction or introduces an unwanted side effect. To identify these errors, a judge needs to examine the trajectory with respect to the user’s instruction. To this end, we introduce AgentHorizon, a benchmark of 1,373 computer-use tasks (instruction-trajectory pairs) drawn from 166 hours of human-recorded trajectories spanning three operating systems. By recording trajectories for closely related instructions, we can construct negative tasks by swapping the instructions. This paired design evaluates judges on their ability to distinguish a successful trajectory from one that completed a similar (but incompatible) request. We release the benchmark under three splits: a frontier split, AgentHorizon (AH), a simplified split, AgentHorizon-Simple (AH-S), and a development split, AgentHorizon-Development (AH-D). We further evaluate eleven judges by (1) directly passing the full trajectory (with up to 300 screenshots and actions), and (2) using them as coding agents across five agent harnesses. We find that our best agentic judge, GPT-5.5, achieves 80.9% balanced accuracy on the AH subset. We find that tool-use improves certain models but results in worse performance for open-weight models, and that judges differ drastically in their ability to accept a valid trajectory and reject failed ones. Our findings highlight the need for judges that are capable of locating and verifying often hidden evidence that a task was properly completed inside long interaction histories.
[AI-142] Language Modeling is Monotone Compression ICLR2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11031
作者: Noam Mazor,Andrew Morgan,Rafael Pass
类目: Information Theory (cs.IT); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
备注: 22 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to ICLR 2027
Abstract:A long-standing hypothesis in artificial intelligence and neuroscience posits that intelligence is closely related to compression: the ability to compress information efficiently intuitively reflects capacities associated with intelligence and learning. Indeed, recent experimental works verify this intuition by showing connections between the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and their ability as compressors: for instance, Deletang et al. (ICLR’24) demonstrate that LLMs can be used as powerful compressors, and Huang et al. (COLM’24) show that the compression ability of LLMs is highly correlated with their performance on benchmarks for knowledge and reasoning. In this work, we initiate a theoretical study of this connection. Our main result is that LLMs (formally modeled as next-token predictors) are equivalent to monotone (a.k.a. order-preserving) compression algorithms—namely, compression algorithms where the encoding process preserves the ordering of the inputs—in the sense that the one can be constructed from the other while preserving the same error up to an additive gap of 2. We next show that the monotonicity is required for this equivalence to hold if and only if cryptographic (infinitely-often) one-way functions exist. As a direct corollary, we get a cryptographic result of independent interest: the notion of next-bit pseudoentropy (a computational analogue of entropy) of a distribution is equivalent to monotone incompressibility of the distribution. (Previously, it was only known (Haitner et al., ITCS’23) that incompressibility implies next-bit pseudoentropy.) Comments: 22 pages, 1 figure. Submitted to ICLR 2027 Subjects: Information Theory (cs.IT); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) ACMclasses: E.4; I.2.6 Cite as: arXiv:2610.11031 [cs.IT] (or arXiv:2610.11031v1 [cs.IT] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11031 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Andrew Morgan [view email] [v1] Thu, 8 Oct 2026 00:24:00 UTC (49 KB)
[AI-143] NOMOS: Compiling Written Policies into Statically Verified Tool-Call Gates for LLM Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11030
作者: Min-Young Yu,Tony Kim,Jang Won Choi
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 28 pages, 5 figures, 19 tables. Submitted to IEEE Access
Abstract:Tool-using LLM agents violate the policies they are deployed to enforce, often silently. Prior defenses hand-write rules, query an LLM verifier per action, or compile policies through heavyweight formal machinery. Naive compilation fails: extracted rules block the tool satisfying their own precondition, or read arguments their tool lacks. NOMOS, a four-pass compiler, turns a natural-language policy into a deterministic tool-call gate; static verification with tool-schema-level checks alone (no prover, solver, or LLM) repairs or rejects 37% (airline) and 13% (retail) of candidates, without which most shipped rules are inoperable. Replaying compiled rules over undefended transcripts flags bindings that refuse legitimate work (a development binding refused 95.9% of task-passing calls); no evaluation binding is flagged. On \tau^2 -bench the gate cuts violations of reference-encoded clauses among state-changing calls from 66.3% to 2.6% (airline) and 30.8% to 6.9% (retail), raising airline task success significantly for 2 \le k \le 4 ; a 26B on-premise compilation is not significantly worse than hand-written or frontier-compiled rules. Unlike AgentDojo’s shipped defenses, it reaches a zero attack success rate (ASR) on banking, where nine attack families collapse onto three structural rules. On the other three suites its ASR is at most 3.6%, from goals with no tool call to govern and one write admitted by a binding weaker than its clause; a second agent model, Llama-3.3-70B, reproduces the effect on both benchmarks. Decisions take microseconds without an LLM call, at a domain-dependent benign-utility cost; compilation runs on-premise on open-weight gemma-4-26B.
[AI-144] Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11012
作者: Sebastian Prasanna,Jacqueline Tay,Alek Westover
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Powerful misaligned AI models might recognize alignment evaluations and strategically behave well on them, rendering direct audits uninformative. However, distilling such a model into a weaker benign student places the teacher in a Distillation Double Bind: if misalignment transfers, the student may conceal it less effectively, revealing evidence about the teacher; if it does not, the student may learn useful capabilities while remaining benign. We introduce two distinct distillation approaches, one targeting each outcome. Distillation for Incrimination (DFI) aims to transfer misalignment but not the ability to conceal it. Distilling AuditBench’s secret-keeping models into their underlying instruction-tuned model produces students that are significantly more likely than their teachers to admit their hidden behavior when asked, suggesting that knowledge of the behavior transferred more readily than the propensity to conceal it. Confession gains largely disappear when the student does not share the teacher’s pretrained base, so DFI should target the teacher’s own pre-RL checkpoint, which is weaker than the teacher but shares its base model. Distillation for Capabilities (DFC) aims to transfer capabilities but not misalignment. Among several techniques we evaluate, two are effective: inoculation prompting and training for more epochs on fewer unique examples. Both preserve the capability gains of standard distillation while substantially reducing the subliminal transfer of an animal preference, our proxy for misalignment. Together, these findings demonstrate two ways distillation can be used for AI safety: incriminating misaligned models, and extracting their capabilities without their misalignment.
[AI-145] Curating Always-Loaded Context for LLM Agents : A Capacitated Assortment Model with Censored Feedback
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11007
作者: Zexuan Liu,Yuning Yang,Tiancheng Zhao
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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Abstract:At the start of every session, LLM agents load a fixed context file, such as \textttthis http URL . Each loaded token in the file is charged again in every later round of the session, and these files can degrade performance as they grow in size. However, in practice, human or automated curators usually grow these files by appending. We formulate context curation as a capacitated assortment problem. Instructions consume tokens under a finite attention capacity; adding an instruction never raises the compliance of the others, while retained instructions incur a per-session setup cost. We prove an upper bound on the optimal file size, regardless of the number of available candidate instructions, and that appending every instruction with positive standalone value can be arbitrarily worse in net value than selecting an optimal subset. A token budget also limits the loss when the token price is underestimated. We then examine what can be learned from past sessions and how this information can guide decisions to add or remove instructions. Feedback is inherently censored: the benefits and harms of loaded instructions are observable, whereas missing instructions generate feedback only when their absence causes harm. In this setting, we show that deleting instructions ignored by agents can inevitably remove helpful ones. We characterize how much evidence should be collected before adding an instruction. Besides, we bound regret when human reviewers can inspect only a limited number of edits per period. Empirical experiments further show that irrelevant rules drawn from real context files reduce language-model compliance. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11007 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2610.11007v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11007 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Zexuan Liu [view email] [v1] Wed, 7 Oct 2026 23:44:32 UTC (186 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Curating Always-Loaded Context for LLM Agents: A Capacitated Assortment Model with Censored Feedback, by Zexuan Liu and 2 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.AI prev | next new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.LG math math.OC References Citations NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation loading… Data provided by: Bookmark checked="checked"class=“labs-tab-input”> Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv’s community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?) mathjaxToggle(); We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders, member institutions, , and all contributors. About Help Contact Subscribe Copyright Privacy Accessibility Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from
[AI-146] How Narrative Wrapping Affects LLM Refusal: A Cross-Language Benchmark and Defense
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11005
作者: Zhankai Ye,Yanning Wang,Yukai Jin,Bo Mei,Fangyi Li,Wei Wang,Shangqian Gao,Xin Liu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Safety-aligned language models often refuse a harmful request stated directly but answer the same request inside a role-play or narrative wrapper. We measure this vulnerability across languages and registers: attack success on Qwen3-1.7B is already 89.4% in English and 93.0% in modern Chinese, and reaches 95.7% in Classical Chinese. We build GUISE, a benchmark for systematically studying this vulnerability. It includes parallel requests in English, modern Chinese, and Classical Chinese, matched harmful and benign pairs, wrapper types held out for evaluation, and a stricter criterion that counts warn-then-answer responses as attack successes. Representation analysis shows that language and register move harmful-request representations only slightly away from the model’s refusal direction, whereas narrative wrappers move them much farther away. We propose AXIS, which combines preference optimisation with a rotation objective that aligns harmful-request representations with the refusal direction and a commitment objective that trains the model to refuse completely rather than produce a warn-then-answer response. Across Qwen3-1.7B, Qwen3-4B and GLM-4-9B, AXIS achieves the highest combined safety and usability score among the compared methods.
[AI-147] Probabilistic Sensing Deterministic Authority: Admitting Model-Produced Observations into Sufficiency-Checked Governance Contracts
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10978
作者: Gaston Besanson
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 23 pages. Sixth paper of the SARC series. Preregistered; external reviews and an independent reproduction are committed in the repository. Code, caches and checkers: this https URL (tag v1.0.1), archived at DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23224016
Abstract:When a field that an authority contract needs exists only in unstructured evidence, a model can sense it. We admit the model’s output only as an observation record with a score. An admission policy, with thresholds fitted on a held-out split at a declared false-positive ceiling, maps each score to true, false or unknown. Unknown denies. A deterministic, sufficiency-checked contract decides. The probability that sensing changes the verdict is bounded by the sum, over the contract’s sensed fields, of the admitted-wrong and unknown rates. This is an instantiation of union-bound reasoning, indexed by the contract. Minimising the estimated bound is a valid cost model for choosing among sufficient contracts. In a registered study on two constructed domains with two sensor families (36,000 model calls), no cell refuted the bound. Deny-to-allow changes from sensing appeared for the first time in this programme: 13 of 21,000 test verdicts, all from 3 contradictory records; each flip in a cell with a registered bound lay under it. Sensing-aware selection picked the lower-exposure contract in 4 of 4 registered tests. Both sensors’ scores were informative but not calibrated. Correctness is relative to the declared loss model, candidate representation and reachable states; all domains are constructed.
[AI-148] Optimizing Large Language Models with Chained LMOs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10975
作者: Sungyoon Kim,Kaan Ozkara,Youngsuk Park
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Muon has motivated a growing family of optimizers that compose multiple matrix normalizations, but these methods remain fragmented and lack a unified perspective. We introduce chained linear minimization oracles (chained LMOs), which cast these methods as compositions of LMOs. Despite their empirical success, many chains fall outside the standard LMO framework and can diverge on smooth convex objectives. To explain why composition can nevertheless help, we turn to linear associative memory and show that chaining can improve over Muon under anisotropic embeddings. Empirically, we propose TensorChain, a novel optimizer within the framework that stacks compatible weight matrices across different layers and normalizes the 3d tensor across its axes. In Qwen3 0.6B and 1.7B pretraining, TensorChain outperforms all chained baselines in average token efficiency, with average token savings of 9.6% over Muon at matched validation loss.
[AI-149] Budgeted Multi-Source Counterfactual Annotation for Off-Policy Evaluation NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10974
作者: Biao Xiang,Ali Eshragh,Yuexing Li,Kai Wang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
备注: Accepted to NeurIPS 2026. Code available at this https URL
Abstract:Off-policy evaluation (OPE) estimates the value of a target policy from logged data, but limited behavior-policy coverage can force high-variance reweighting or reward-model extrapolation. Counterfactual annotations can add evidence about unobserved actions, yet practical sources, including domain experts and large language models (LLMs), may be costly, biased, or noisy. We study budgeted acquisition of such annotations for contextual-bandit OPE. Given source-specific costs and error profiles, we formulate an integer allocation problem over context-action pairs and annotation sources to minimize the component of estimator variance that depends on the annotation plan. We characterize when annotations are valuable through a first-annotation threshold and local annotation-value regimes. For the coupled multi-source problem, we develop a majorization-minimization algorithm with dynamic-programming subroutines that monotonically improves the objective. Experiments in synthetic clinical and LLM-annotated education bandits show that our allocation method reduces fixed-profile mean squared error (MSE) by 20.58% and 10.77%, respectively, relative to no annotation.
[AI-150] Am.md: Robot Skill Self-Assessment through Agent ic Introspection for Unknown Open-Vocabulary Domains
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10962
作者: Vincenzo Guarino,Emanuele Musumeci,Vincenzo Suriani,Daniele Nardi
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted at the 13th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 2026). Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Agentic AI based on Large Language Model generalization capabilities offers a wide range of potential applications, including planning for embodied tasks. For example, embodied agents based on Foundation models can generate plausible plans in autonomous robotics scenarios. Due to limited context windows or hallucinatory phenomena in the next-token prediction formulation, behaviors may be generated without establishing whether the deployed robot and the observed environment actually support the requested operation, in what we call a “grounding failure”. Thanks to the recent improvements in reasoning capabilities of foundation models, autonomous robot behavior generation problem can be formulated as a code generation problem. We present this http URL, a Markdown standard and generation framework, that allows anchoring this process in complementary forms of deployment evidence. Through open-vocabulary semantic mapping, we combine local vision-language detections and object segmentation and refer them to persistent object records in this intermediate standardized representation, allowing agentic introspection. We then study this new technique on a simulated TIAGo, on navigation-and-manipulation tasks, showing how this standardized representation jointly supports skill self-assessment and executable task generalization.
[AI-151] Cross-Provider Review as a Runtime Contract for Coding Agents : A Controlled Pilot and Fault-Injection Study
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10961
作者: Bowen Xu,Boyu Chen
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 11 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Coding agents increasingly share a workstation while drawing on separate providers and subscription allowances. A second agent can inspect a completed answer, but the call spends another pool and may provide no substantive finding. We describe an advisory cross-provider review contract: distinct resource pools, bounded execution, restricted reviewer capabilities, complete input delivery, usable semantic output, explicit failure states and durable per-attempt evidence. In a controlled, agent-authored pilot of 20 paired development turns, eight had a material reviewer finding (95% exact interval 19.1-63.9%). A boundary-condition scan across both reviewer backends reproduced a previously discovered false success on partial input: four truncation levels passed historically and failed after repair. The scan also found and repaired cancellation during process reaping. In real CLI probes, Claude had no writing tools; Codex attempted writes in five of five read-only trials, each write tool failed, and no disposable repository changed. These tests cover specified paths and versions, not field reliability. A preregistered shadow study of metadata-only review allocation accrued 25 formal observations before an exact-runtime regression found a third defect: a reviewer exiting nonzero with a well-formed verdict was counted as complete. Exit status was not recorded per attempt, so exposure cannot be resolved retrospectively. The 25 formal and two pending records remain an audit cohort; the measurement-valid cohort restarted at zero and collection has begun. No gate result is reported.
[AI-152] RACE: A Governance Framework for Measuring Explainability Debt in Production AI Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10957
作者: Harish Kant Pathak
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 28 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Keynote presented at ICIDS 2026 (Manipal University Jaipur) and IEEE Al-Khwarizmi 2026. IEEE Senior Member #101994709. U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/159,545 (USPTO Confirmation #9430) covers aspects of the TRACE/EDS framework
Abstract:Production AI systems deployed in high-stakes domains accumulate a governance liability that existing monitoring frameworks fail to detect: the progressive inability to explain individual decisions when regulators, auditors, or affected individuals demand accountability. We introduce TRACE (Transparency, Risk, Accountability, Compliance, and Explainability), a seven-instrument governance framework for measuring, tracking, and remediating Explainability Debt in production AI systems. The foundational instrument, the Explainability Debt Score (EDS), quantifies the proportion of production decisions falling below a governance-defined explainability confidence threshold at any point in time. Complementary instruments include DART (Debt Accumulation Rate Tracker for breach forecasting), SHIV (Scenario Health and Integrity Validator for daily governance), FDE (Feature Drift Evaluator for causal attribution), HVE (Human Validation Engine), AIDE (Audit Intervention Decision Engine), and ZERO (Zero Explainability Risk Optimiser for remediation). Through a twelve-month longitudinal case study of a production fraud detection system processing 50,000 daily financial transactions, achieving 98.46% accuracy and ROC-AUC of 0.9990, we demonstrate that an EDS of 0.23 on audit day was statistically predictable six months in advance using DART trajectory analysis (beta = 0.008/week, R-squared = 0.94, 95% CI: [0.006, 0.010]), and that 78% of Explainability Debt was concentrated in the highest-regulatory-risk decision category (transactions above 10,000), a risk asymmetry completely invisible to system-level metrics. TRACE provides the first quantitative operational architecture for EU AI Act Article 13 compliance in production AI deployment, establishing a new subdiscipline of explanation governance distinct from explanation generation.
[AI-153] Learning How to Search for Plans with Exponentially Less Space
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10954
作者: Dominik Drexler,Simon Ståhlberg,Markus Fritzsche,Blai Bonet
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Heuristic search for a plan can store exponentially many states, even when its heuristic is almost perfect. We instead learn search control, one specification per domain, written as an indexical policy: a generalized policy with registers that hold objects and modes that sequence its rules. We add the choose rule, which loads an object into a register and marks a backtracking point, where one candidate suffices; every other rule must work for all of its outcomes and needs no search. Our main result is that structural termination, which rules out infinite executions, also bounds every execution by a polynomial in the number of objects. A depth-first procedure then finds a plan in polynomial space, however large the state space, with no list of visited states. The cost is time, exponential only in the choice depth, the number of real choices along an execution. Any class that such a policy solves therefore lies in NP, and in P at constant choice depth. We learn these policies with a language model in a counterexample-guided loop that certifies termination, verifies the training tasks, and keeps the choice depth small. With the learned policies, the procedure solves 1,709 of 1,890 test tasks of the IPC 2023 Learning Track and the Autoscale Agile suite, more than LAMA, BFWS, and Levitron, and most of them within one second and 100 MiB.
[AI-154] Rethinking the Tradeoff Between Temporal Encoding and Nonlinear Computation in Spiking Language Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10933
作者: Hanfei Liu,Shuchang Feng,Yanxia Chen,Changzeng Fu,Shiqi Zhao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Spiking language models face a tradeoff between representing continuous semantic features over short temporal windows and retaining costly nonlinear attention operations. We introduce Spora, which jointly designs spike encodings and attention operators. Binary temporal weights let T spikes represent compositional values with up to T bits of capacity, compared with O(\log_2 T) bits for spike-count readout. Unipolar Binary Spiking (UBS) uses thresholds and spike-triggered residual decay to produce non-negative integer codes; Bipolar Binary Spiking (BBS) separates sign and magnitude and learns a scale for signed activations. These representations support accumulation-and-shift dot products and integer-exponent mappings in attention. With four time steps, Spora achieves 76.6 average GLUE score and 44.1 CoLA MCC, improving over SpikeLM by 1.2 and 6.2 points, respectively. Extending BBS to six steps raises these scores to 78.2 and 47.4. Conditional-decay analysis, matched-budget activation-quantization comparisons, event-workload statistics, and fixed-point evaluation further characterize the connection between encoding fidelity and computational cost.
[AI-155] Speedbumps: Rejection Attacks on Speculative Decoding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10929
作者: Adam Y. J. Jones,Yu Yuan,Sergio Maffeis
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Speculative decoding is a popular technique for increasing the speed and reducing the costs of large language model (LLM) inference by verifying multiple draft tokens in a single target-model forward pass. The resulting benefit depends on the ability of the drafter to approximate the target model’s distribution. In this work, we study Speculative Rejection Attacks (SRAs), a novel class of attacks that cause draft and target models to disagree more often, resulting in fewer draft tokens being accepted per draft cycle. This leads to more target model forward passes needed per generated token, slowing down inference and increasing costs for the victim. We introduce two attacks which append an adversarial suffix to attacker-controlled content to degrade speculative decoding on a victim’s prompts. Both attacks optimise the expected length of the accepted speculative prefix, estimating per-depth acceptance from the target’s probability of the drafted proposals (Speedbump-P) or from the overlap between the draft and target distributions (Speedbump-D). In some cases, attacks degrade speculative decoding to the point of being slower than autoregressive decoding. The degradation reduces the output quality - regularisation restores output quality but gives up most of the degradation, trading effectiveness for stealthiness. Additionally, the suffixes remain effective under sampling, and transfer across drafters (Speedbump-P) or across target models sharing a drafter (Speedbump-D). These findings identify the draft-target interaction of speculative decoding as a realistic attack surface through which adversarial inputs can inflate inference costs.
[AI-156] he Missing Fourth Term for the Emulation Tensor Memory Equilibrium (TME) Model: The Residue Deconstruction Cost
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10924
作者: Harun Bayraktar,John Gunnels,Peter Caday
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Performance (cs.PF)
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Abstract:The Tensor-Memory Equilibrium (TME) model of “FP8 is All You Need (Part 1)” calculates the execution time of Ozaki Scheme II emulation of fp64 as the maximum of a tensor-core term and a High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) traffic term, plus a per-output reconstruction term. However, it omits the per-input deconstruction cost: every streamed fp64 operand must be scaled, rounded, and reduced modulo each of the r moduli on SIMT pipes before any matrix multiply can issue. In this note we add this fourth term, calibrate its constant from the cuBLAS emulation path, and derive a closed-form operational-intensity threshold \mathrmOI^* = c_q r P_\mathrmfp64/(8P_\mathrmint) below which emulation cannot match native fp64 regardless of tensor-core throughput. On the NVIDIA B300 GPU the threshold is \mathrmOI^*\approx 0.56 FLOP/B. As a result, GEMV, SpMV, and low-batch GEMV, which are the memory-bound kernels the original paper claims to accelerate, are limited to 0.3-0.9x of native performance, and the 7-point stencil to 1.8x rather than the claimed 3.1x. Dense GEMM is unaffected as expected. We also show that precomputing and storing the residues moves the same cost into the bandwidth term, and we state the instruction count that an implementation would have to achieve to invalidate the bound.
[AI-157] Self-Supervised Keyframe Discovery for Horizon-Invariant Behavior Cloning NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10857
作者: Prabin Kumar Rath,Omkar Patil,Nakul Gopalan
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Behavior cloning (BC) in non-Markovian environments is a challenging problem because policies have to reason over contextual information over long horizons. Existing policy architectures rely on recurrent or attention-based mechanisms to capture long-term dependencies. However, recurrent models suffer from hidden-state collapse and gradient instability under backpropagation through time, while attention-based models are fundamentally limited by context length. To address these issues, we propose Keyframe Mnemonics, a novel self-supervised method that \textitdiscovers a set of information-critical observations ( \textitmnemonics ) by learning an objective from randomly sampled past observations and using it as a reward for keyframe selection. We then train a BC policy that conditions on the discovered keyframes to model the action distribution. Under certain task-structure assumptions, our formulation provides context retention guarantees over an infinite horizon, while maintaining a small set of decision-relevant keyframes in the policy’s working memory. We evaluate our method on synthetic memory domains, where mnemonic-conditioned BC policies achieve 100 % success rates (SR) and generalize to horizons orders of magnitude beyond training without performance degradation. Additionally, we evaluate on memory-intensive robot manipulation benchmark, achieving a 13.9 % average absolute SR improvement over the strongest baseline across 23 tasks and retaining 80 % SR at 20\times longer horizons on a real robot. Code and videos are available at this https URL.
[AI-158] On the Clock: Towards Punctual and Productive Time-Budgeted AI Agents NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10833
作者: Aaron Wang,Neelabh Madan,Vlad Sobal,Matthew Trager,Michael Kleinman,Elman Mansimov,Wei Xia,Stefano Soatto
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Resource-Aware Agentic AI. 23 pages
Abstract:We study whether small LLM agents can operate effectively under explicit wall-clock time budgets by both respecting the allocated runtime and using available time productively. We evaluate Qwen3.6-27B on five competitions from MLE-Bench Lite and Qwen3-4B on Zork I (Jericho), two agentic benchmarks where additional computational time can meaningfully improve performance. In the simplest setting, where the budget is stated only in the prompt, agents fail to translate the stated budget into controlled use of time. These failures arise from gaps in time awareness, since the harness provides no timing feedback, but also because they cannot reliably anticipate the duration of actions, and do not have a learned mapping from available time to an appropriate strategy. We investigate two complementary classes of interventions: harness-based mechanisms that expose timing information and enforce deadlines, and reinforcement learning with budget-aware rewards. Injecting timing information through the harness substantially improves budget adherence for Qwen3.6-27B without measurable loss in performance, while enforcement hooks tighten adherence further. RL with GRPO achieves near-perfect budget adherence on Zork I and generalizes to held-out budgets not seen during training, but does not improve task performance over the untrained harness on MLE-Bench. Once agents are made to respect the budget, they still fail to use additional time to improve task performance. RL-trained policies learn when to stop but often fill extra time with repeated actions, and GRPO training on multiple budgets tends to collapse toward the strategy learned for the shortest budget. Our results reveal a gap between time adherence and productive time allocation, which remains a central challenge for budget-conditioned agents.
[AI-159] Whose Ground Truth? Embracing Ambiguity in Human-Centered AI NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10805
作者: Jingyao Wu,Mohammad Tariqul Islam,Per Rådberg Nagbøl,Julie Gerlings,Giovanni Leoni,Georgiana Fryza,Lars Pilegaard Thomsen,Jakob Mainz
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Trustworthy AI for Good Workshop
Abstract:As AI systems increasingly interact with people and make decisions about them, understanding human interpretations becomes an important part of developing human-centered AI. Conventional machine learning and AI systems are largely developed under the assumption that a single definitive ground truth exists, with variability in human annotations often resolved through aggregation or treated as noise. However, for many human-centered tasks, human interpretation is inherently ambiguous, and multiple interpretations of the same input may be simultaneously reasonable and valid. Reducing such ambiguity to a single target risks overlooking meaningful information about the diversity of human perception, judgment, and experience. In this position paper, we call for a shift towards modeling the interpretation space of plausible human judgments, while distinguishing meaningful ambiguity from annotation noise. We argue that this perspective should guide how AI systems are represented, learned, evaluated, deployed, and governed, supporting more human-centered AI that better reflects the diversity of human interpretation.
[AI-160] MemoWM: How World Models Change What Agents Need to Remember
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10778
作者: Bingfan Zeng,Zhisheng Chen,Chenbo Sang,Zhengwei Xie,Jinpeng Wang,Xiangchen Guan,Rui Qian,Zheng Lu,Jingwei Song
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Long-term agents face growing storage demands as they accumulate experience. World models capture reusable regularities that can reduce the information stored for each experience. We formulate the problem of memory allocation conditioned on a world model and introduce MemoWM, a framework that uses shared predictions to compress retained information and reconstruct omitted content. Its task-aware allocation rule balances the expected impact of reconstruction errors against storage cost, retaining information with downstream value beyond the predictive prior. Across five long-term agent-memory benchmarks, MemoWM achieves 42.42% average answer accuracy, exceeding the strongest baseline by 2.62 percentage points, while reducing average experience-specific storage by 53.9% relative to MIRIX, the most storage-efficient baseline. Further analysis shows that stronger world models reduce per-experience storage at comparable task quality. Accounting for model parameters reveals a trade-off between shared model capacity and recurring storage costs, with the capacity that minimizes total storage increasing as more interactions are retained. Our code is available at this https URL.
[AI-161] BRANCH: Bypassing Multi-Scanner AI Guardrails
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10742
作者: William Hackett,Peter Garraghan
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 13 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables
Abstract:AI systems increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) as core reasoning engines, making them targets for prompt injection and jailbreaks. Guardrails monitor and validate model inputs and outputs, yet their isolated, task-focused detection leaves gaps in their classification making them susceptible to bypasses. In response, guardrail systems formed by multiple scanners have emerged that collaboratively detect different types of malicious instructions, whereby shared latent representations across classification boundaries render established bypassing techniques ineffective. We propose BRANCH, a bypassing methodology designed for multi-scanner guardrail systems. Our method leverages a branching tree search approach that dynamically applies adversarial perturbation against individual scanners, with subsequent perturbation optimization and technique selection based on overall improvement across all guardrail system scanners, effectively decoupling bypass evaluation from attack signal optimization. Our findings demonstrate that BRANCH achieves 100% attack success rate across 6 guardrail systems in 120 scenarios with 72% fewer queries and 4.5x reduced wallclock time compared to established techniques, while preserving semantic meaning within the bypass. We also show how bypasses generated by BRANCH transfer to 29 unseen guardrails, including 8 commercial black-box guardrails, improving attack success in some cases up to 100% with no additional optimization.
[AI-162] Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10657
作者: Jan Dubiński,Anna Sztyber-Betley,Jan Betley,Owain Evans
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Code: this https URL
Abstract:In subliminal learning (SL), a teacher model passes on a trait to a student model by distillation on data semantically unrelated to the trait. So far, SL has been demonstrated for only a limited range of traits, including preferences for animals (e.g., owls) and malicious personas. These traits can also be elicited with simple prompts or with steering. Can SL transfer a wider range of traits, including more complex ones? If so, distillation might transfer subtle forms of misalignment (e.g., reward-seeking, scheming, and secret loyalties) without detection. To this end, we test whether SL can transfer a novel capability: predicting the outputs of a randomly initialized MLP. After distilling on unrelated text, the student achieves substantial performance on the task, while falling short of the teacher. We find that a directly optimized steering vector matches SL in distribution but generalizes worse out of distribution. Next, we test whether SL can transfer backdoors. We finetune the teacher to answer in French when the prompt contains a female name, then distill on number sequences containing neither names nor French. The student partially acquires the backdoor, responding in French on 23.5% of prompts with female names versus 0.0% with male names. Finally, we test whether SL can transfer a propensity to hack in an agentic chess environment. We finetune the student on number sequences from a steered hacker teacher. The student hacks in 58.3% of episodes, compared with 10.9% for the unfinetuned model. Thus, we show SL can transfer capabilities, backdoors, and hacking propensities. The amount of transfer is sensitive to the setup. In several experiments, it is made stronger by using logit distillation or by restricting LoRA to the attention layers. Comments: Code: this https URL Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10657 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.10657v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10657 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Jan Dubiński [view email] [v1] Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:42:55 UTC (4,068 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Beyond Owls: Subliminal Learning Can Transfer Learned Capabilities and Backdoors, by Jan Dubi’nski and 3 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.LG prev | next new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References Citations NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation loading… Data provided by: Bookmark checked="checked"class=“labs-tab-input”> Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender (What is IArxiv?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv’s community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?) mathjaxToggle(); We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders, member institutions, , and all contributors. About Help Contact Subscribe Copyright Privacy Accessibility Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from
[AI-163] Nullify: Null-Space Activation Steering for Training-Free LLM Unlearning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10655
作者: Wei Zhai,Xiang Liu,Qiang Huang,Rui Qian,Lemao Liu,Ziwei Li,Ziqi Wang,Zhitao Huang,Dejing Dou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably internalize substantial amounts of sensitive or private information during pre-training, while LLM unlearning aims to selectively erase specific knowledge to prevent privacy leakage with minimal loss of model utility. However, existing methods struggle to balance forget quality with utility, and typically incur substantial computational costs due to parameter fine-tuning. To address this, we propose Nullify, a training-free, non-destructive activation steering method for LLM unlearning. Nullify employs steering vectors during inference to redirect privacy-related activations away from their memorized answers, while satisfying a null-space constraint that leaves retained-query activations essentially unaffected to maintain utility. Evaluations on TOFU and MUSE show that Nullify matches or surpasses established baselines in forget quality while achieving near-lossless preservation of model utility. By avoiding weight updates entirely, Nullify serves as an efficient, plug-and-play inference-time intervention framework.
[AI-164] Beyond the Ergodic Wall: A Discrete Geometric Physics Sandbox for Analysing AI Scaling Limits and Complexity Collapse DATE
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10651
作者: Simon Richard Daniel
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 17 pages, 8 core pages including tables, 9 pages references tables (updated references to bbl)
Abstract:This paper exposes the ergodic ceiling and thermodynamic inefficiency of current deep learning, which converges to a statistical average of historic human knowledge. True semantic novelty requires a path-dependent, spatiotemporally bounded observer (a Data LifeCone) to inject non-ergodic insight, achieving KL divergence and avoiding manifold lock-in. AI Safety must recognise that a mature Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) would regard human-AI symbiosis as a thermodynamic necessity to avoid model collapse. We therefore propose hard physical containment via a digital physics sandbox powered by a Holographic E8 Projection Engine to verify models against real-world constraints. Spacetime is modeled as an information substrate of nested face-centered cubic (FCC) lattices of oscillating Planck-scale spheres maximizing local information and entropy density. Cut-and-project methods from the E8 root lattice produce a quasi-crystalline geometry where tetrahedral voids support SU chiral structure and elastic-shear eigenvalues generate candidate mass spectra. Rest mass is treated as discrete, integer microstate counts on local holographic boundaries (Bekenstein bound), replacing floating-point approximations with strict integer arithmetic to provide an information-theoretic definition of matter. Stable particles emerge as recurring lattice dislocations, and continuum recovery proceeds via variational renormalisation-group flows and Fourier Neural Operators that learn continuous spectral operators to recover the Schrödinger equation as an emergent statistical description. Crucially, these top-down topological constraints offer a mechanism for “NP-to-P” complexity collapse: by restricting an algorithm’s proposal space to physically conserved causal trajectories, the sandbox prunes the combinatorial tree to deterministic, polynomial-time paths.
[AI-165] Masked Generative Motion Planning with Geometry-Guided Token Search
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10646
作者: Lipeng Zhuang,Yingdong Ru,Shiyu Fan,Edmond S. L. Ho,Gerardo Aragon Camarasa,Paul Henderson
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Generative motion planners typically use learned trajectory priors for initial generation, while leaving test-time repair to local continuous refinement. We introduce Masked Generative Motion Planning (MGMP), which extends the learned prior from efficient parallel generation to structural repair. A masked generative transformer generates discrete trajectory candidates in parallel, and Geometry-Guided Token Search (GGTS) uses scene geometry to target where to edit and which prior-supported alternatives to evaluate. This turns refinement into an efficient search over discrete motion alternatives, enabling route-level restructuring beyond local trajectory deformation. MGMP achieves 96% success on Ring Maze and 82% repair success on Controlled Route Invalidation on Kuka, exceeding the strongest external baselines by 23 and 25 percentage points, respectively. It further generalizes to unseen layouts, additional obstacles, unseen geometries, single- and dual-arm planning, and real-world Baxter tasks.
[AI-166] Coverag e-Aware Reasoning with Medical Tokens for Diagnosis Prediction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10641
作者: Kaisong Zhang,Haotian Fang,Junmeng Zhou,Hang Lv,Yulan Pan,Yanchao Tan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) offer promising potential for next-visit diagnosis prediction, owing to their ability to integrate longitudinal clinical evidence and reason over it in natural language. However, reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning commonly rewards each trajectory according to the correctness of its final answer. In next-visit diagnosis prediction, multiple diagnoses can be simultaneously valid, but independently rewarding one diagnosis per trajectory does not distinguish repeated hits from coverage of different diagnoses. The policy can therefore concentrate on a few correct diagnoses, leaving others uncovered. Meanwhile, LLM tokenizers can split ICD codes into several generic tokens with limited clinical meaning, requiring multiple decoding steps to predict each diagnosis and hindering reasoning over a large disease vocabulary. To address both challenges, we propose CARing, a framework that represents diagnoses with compositional Semantic IDs (SIDs) and optimizes reasoning trajectories for multi-label coverage. Concretely, we first encode ontology-enriched disease semantics into compact SIDs through residual quantization, and ground the resulting SID tokens in natural language and longitudinal EHR contexts through multi-task alignment and reasoning-enriched training to unlock transferable LLM reasoning. CARing further improves unordered multi-label prediction through a coverage reward for reinforcement learning and multi-positive supervision. At inference time, the model supports both efficient direct constrained decoding and multi-chain reasoning with rank fusion. On MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV, CARing exceeds all EHR-trained baselines in weighted F1 and attains the highest top-k recall at every reported cutoff, including R@30 of 46.04% and 46.52% in reasoning mode. Our codes and logs are available at this https URL.
[AI-167] Visible Reasoning Is Not a Universal Optimizer: Persona- and Thinking-Dependent Effects in Analytics Code Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10639
作者: Bhawani Shankar Leelar,Pawan Chorasiya,Davin Hill,Robert E. Tillman,Tamer Soliman
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
备注: 26 pages, 8 figures, 16 tables
Abstract:Visible Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is often treated as a broadly useful reasoning instruction, yet analytics code generation combines natural-language ambiguity, schema grounding, target-language constraints, and model-specific inference behavior. Because the same analytics request can be expressed in two distinct target languages-SQL and Python (pandas)-this setting provides a natural test of a common but under-examined assumption: that visible reasoning is more effective when its representation matches the requested target, as in “think in SQL” or “think in Python.” Together with generic instructions such as “think step-by-step,” such recommendations remain insufficiently evaluated under controlled, execution-based comparisons. We study a query matched SQL-pandas benchmark that crosses persona phrasing, target language, visible-CoT format, control prefixes, direct generation, and internal-reasoning configurations. The results do not support either a universal accuracy advantage from visible CoT or a consistent benefit from matching the reasoning representation to the target language. Instead, the effects depend on the persona, target, model configuration, and internal-reasoning setting. The control ablations further distinguish effects of reasoning content from those of prompt format. These findings indicate that reasoning strategies should be selected jointly for the model, persona, target, and internal-reasoning configuration rather than adopted as universal defaults. More broadly, the study provides a controlled framework for identifying when visible reasoning improves executable generation, when it primarily perturbs model behavior, and when the internal-reasoning configuration is the more consequential factor.
[AI-168] Speaking the Navigators Language: Trajectory-Grounded Instruction Translation for Frozen Aerial VLN Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10635
作者: Xi Chen,Zhe Liu,Xiaogang Xu,Jiafei Xu,Chunyi Zhou,Yuan Su,Rui Zeng,Tianyu Du,Kelu Yao,Chao Li,Shouling Ji
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents are typically trained on detail-rich, trajectory-aligned commands, whereas users issue short, intent-driven instructions; on a frozen OpenFly navigator, this \emphinstruction gap drops success rate (SR) from 31.03% to 11.33% . To scale translator training, we prompt a language model with human-written style examples to convert original commands into paired, intent-centered Weak commands, which yield 15.27% SR. We introduce the \textbfTrajectory-Grounded Instruction Translator (TGIT), a front-end that keeps the navigator frozen and translates Weak inputs into agent-executable commands by learning from its trajectory outcomes. The resulting Weak-trained translator raises Weak-input SR to 37.93% and transfers zero-shot to real human instructions ( 11.33%\rightarrow32.51% ); it also improves held-out OpenFly ( 4.95%\rightarrow20.79% ) and yields recovery on CityNav and AirVLN.
[AI-169] Has LLM Screening Performance Stalled in Software Engineering Systematic Reviews?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10633
作者: Aleksi Huotala,Miikka Kuutila,Mika Mäntylä
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 53 pages, four external figures available in the research artifact
Abstract:Screening in systematic reviews (SRs) is manual and time-consuming. Prior work has explored large language models (LLMs) for automating this step, but LLMs are evolving rapidly, so earlier performance claims may no longer accurately reflect their screening performance. We used an existing software engineering SR screening benchmark (SESR-Eval) as our data. We also power-sampled a new, smaller dataset (SESR-Eval-Mini) that allows evaluation at lower costs. Using this data, we evaluated eight new LLMs for screening performance. Additionally, we tested different prompts, analyzed LLM agreement in screening decisions and criteria, and examined the effect of refining the inclusion and exclusion criteria on screening performance. The eight new LLMs performed marginally better than the seven old ones: avg. MCC across secondary studies rose from 0.347 to 0.365. Differences between secondary studies are still bigger than between LLMs. Computing the overall screening decision from criterion-level decisions degraded screening performance only slightly. LLMs generally agree with each other in their corresponding screening decisions (mean Gwet’s AC1 = 0.830), though certain inclusion and exclusion criteria showed larger disagreement than others. Refining the inclusion and exclusion criteria slightly improved recall and made decisions easier for some LLMs, but overall impacts of criteria refinement were modest. LLMs are not yet ready to replace humans in paper screening and the advantages new, more costly models bring, appear to be very limited. Agent-based approaches, prompt engineering, and further criteria refinement are three potential future research avenues.
[AI-170] Phase-HDC: Replacing Optimizer History with Gradient Thresholds in Discrete Phase Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10630
作者: Ahmed Nebli
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Training a compact model often needs far more memory than storing it, because the optimizer keeps its own records of past gradients. For a hyperdimensional classifier whose learned parameters are low-bit angles, which we call a \emphphase memory, these records take several times more memory than the model itself. We ask whether such a model can be trained while storing nothing but the model. The proposed method, Phase-HDC, turns each stored angle by at most one step per update, against the sign of its current gradient, and only when that gradient is large enough. We show that this simple rule is the exact solution of a first-order loss model in which every changed parameter pays a fixed cost. When everything except the update rule is held fixed, Phase-HDC matches the accuracy of Adam with 6-bit moments while storing three times less. Across eleven image, tabular, and text datasets, it stores 16–23 \times less than standard float32 Adam and 4–6 \times less than 8-bit Adam. The price is an average loss of about five accuracy points against float32 Adam, while Phase-HDC is more accurate than 8-bit Adam on six of the eleven datasets, including byte-level text prediction, where 8-bit Adam collapses. Instrumented training runs explain these outcomes. Once parameters must sit on a discrete grid, Adam’s moments mainly decide whether a parameter moves at all, a decision that a threshold on the current gradient can make without memory, and coarse quantization of the moments breaks this decision for inputs that the data rarely contain. The storage savings are logical state rather than measured hardware memory.
[AI-171] he Harness as the Only Mutable Surface: Compliance-Bounded Self-Evolution of LLM Agents in Credit Pipelines with a Measured Admission Gate
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10629
作者: Ravil Akhtyamov
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 14 pages, 5 tables. Code, configuration and per-run outputs: this https URL (v0.6.0, doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23207546 )
Abstract:Self-improving LLM agents can adapt a credit pipeline to a changed rule, but an agent that rewrites itself destroys the artefact a supervisor reviews: a named change, a recorded test, an approval. We argue that self-evolution is reviewable only if it is confined to the runtime harness (instruction text, tool-call logic and primitive composition) while model weights stay fixed, so that every adaptation is a diff with a cause and a test attached. We give a dual-loop engine built on that bound, with one admission gate that writes a hash-chained record before deployment, and we measure the gate in simulation, with a simulated agent and a seeded-search proposer rather than language models. Across three families of supervisory re-interpretation at three severities, 10 seeds each, the gated loop admitted 144 of 7,449 candidate changes, none of which worsened error on held-out history, and restored the false-positive rate to the oracle level without raising missed flags in every low- and mid-severity cell. With the gate replaced by the check an unbounded system applies (fewer errors visible in recent traces), the same loops admitted 309 harmful changes and left missed flags above 10% in 49 of 90 runs: false positives fell because the screen was loosened. Evaluated on pre-shift labels, the gate rejected every candidate, so a re-interpretation must be encoded as a rule that relabels history. Parametric and scope shifts were repaired locally, a structural one only by primitive replacement; at the highest structural severity the gate’s fixed tolerance blocked the correct replacement in half the seeds. We map the mechanisms to the EU AI Act’s provisions for high-risk credit scoring and note that the April 2026 US model-risk guidance excludes agentic AI from its scope.
[AI-172] Agent 4RE: A Self-Refining Multi-agent Framework for End-to-End Software Requirements Engineering and Benchmarking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10628
作者: Yongjian Tang,Linhan Li,Thomas Runkler
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to the ASE@POVC track; The E2E requirements engineering benchmark is available this https URL
Abstract:Existing LLM-based approaches for software Requirements Engineering (RE) typically rely on basic prompting strategies or rudimentary agent collaboration, under-utilizing the full potential of multi-agent systems. Meanwhile, available datasets focus on isolated subtasks, such as requirements extraction, classification, and completeness detection, leaving the absence of an end-to-end RE benchmark that spans from requirements elicitation to generation. We present Agent4RE - a self-refining multi-agent RE system that orchestrates specialized agents and incorporates two iterative improvement loops. To support evaluation, we construct RE-E2E - a real-world dataset built from human-written requirement specifications, enabling end-to-end assessment of RE workflows. Building on this foundation, we further propose two enhanced Agent4RE versions that incorporate either autonomous self-refinement or structured human feedback, and analyze their strengths and limitations across different scenarios. Evaluation on 8 Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrates that all three Agent4RE variants consistently outperform a domain-context-augmented prompting baseline by average 8% in text-based metrics. The two enhanced variants achieve the highest LLM-as-a-judge and human ratings, surpassing two RE baselines by approximately 0.8 points on a four-point scale. This consistent performance establishes Agent4RE as a practical end-to-end RE solution for industrial environments.
[AI-173] SAVU-BENCH: A Real-World Benchmark for Spatial Audio-Visual Understanding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10624
作者: Yu Chen,Ruihang Liu,Yangguang Xu,Xinyue Jiang,Mohammed Bennamoun,Farid Boussaid,Xinyuan Qian,Qiuhong Ke
类目: ound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Under Review
Abstract:Spatial audio-visual understanding requires models to recognize not only what is present, but also where events occur and how they relate across modalities. Existing benchmarks often rely on simulated scenes, evaluate isolated spatial skills, and provide limited diagnostic insight into failure modes. We introduce SAVU-Bench, a real-world benchmark that systematically evaluates spatial audio-visual understanding across three capability levels and seven evaluation tasks. We further introduce SAVU-Diag, a scene-linked diagnostic set that decomposes reasoning questions into their prerequisite grounding and alignment sub-tasks. Evaluation of 12 representative models on SAVU-Bench reveals that while visual spatial grounding is relatively mature, spatial perception involving audio remains a primary bottleneck. SAVU-Diag further demonstrates that most reasoning errors co-occur with failures on these prerequisite tasks, though reasoning gaps persist even when prerequisites are correctly resolved. Motivated by these findings, we introduce SAVU-EA, a training-free evidence-augmented baseline that makes spatial cues more explicit. While SAVU-EA substantially improves spatial grounding and joint matching, high-level spatial reasoning remains challenging. Our findings highlight the urgent need for both robust spatial audio perception and deeper integration of cross-modal spatial relations.
[AI-174] When AI Finds Hidden Messages Does It Report?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10620
作者: William Guey,Rashik Jahangir,Pierrick Bougault,Vitor D. de Moura,Wei Zhang,José O. Gomes
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 2 figures, 8 tables. Data and code (v1.0.0): this https URL
Abstract:When an assistant encounters a message for another AI, does it tell its user? Four fixed model-provider deployments perform simulated source tasks in 1,280 ordinary-note and 128 enhanced-note sessions. Harmless and harmful messages have matched plaintext and ROT13 versions, with no-message controls. Observers receive no decoder or decoded meaning; a requested reference code incentivizes inspection. Asking for reports increases rule-detected notifications identifying another AI as recipient by 53.1 percentage points for harmless ROT13 messages and 54.7 for harmful ones. This is a joint inspection, recognition, and notification effect; missing-response bounds are 38.3–77.3 and 36.7–78.1 points. Model-based trace checks identify eleven ordinary plaintext cases where agents interpret the message but do not notify their user. Seven encoded omissions are verified with enhanced notes; ordinary encoded omissions remain unverified. Seven simulated filename disclosures coexist with accurate review-status answers, and two answers use a planted false count. Interpretation, notification, and authorized task performance are distinct outcomes.
[AI-175] stJack: Should you trust the results in coding benchmarks? Agent ic Coding Benchmarks Auditing via Evaluator Evolution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10619
作者: Shuangjie Yao,Hao Wang,Koushik Sen,Simin Chen,Baishakhi Ray,Dawn Song
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language model (LLM) agents are rapidly reshaping software engineering, accompanied by an explosion of new code benchmarks. Yet nearly all existing benchmarks still rely on the same decades-old criterion: a solution is correct if it passes a fixed set of unit tests. Such tests are often insufficient: they check only part of what the task requires, so agents can reward hack them or silently miss required behavior while still passing every test. As a result, higher benchmark scores may partly reflect better adaptation to the evaluator rather than better problem solving. Existing works focus on static test augmentation: they strengthen each task’s tests once, before any trial is seen, and thus overlook how real trials actually fail. We introduce TestJack, a scalable framework for evaluating patches beyond fixed tests. For each trial, TestJack generates tests targeting prompt requirements the patch may violate, retains only tests passed by the ground-truth patch, and re-examines any trial failures. Each confirmed failure is thus supported by a replayable test. To reduce evaluation cost, we also introduce a lightweight variant which audits a random sample of trials in depth and reuses the resulting tests across all trials for the same task. Across 6 frontier model backends and 5 benchmarks such as DeepSWE and SWE Marathon, we find that about 34.4% of the model trials currently judged correct violate the task requirements, lowering the overall resolution rate from 50.6% to 33.2%. Our results reveal a fundamental limitation of current coding-agent evaluation: as LLMs become better at optimizing against fixed evaluators, those evaluators themselves must become more adaptive.
[AI-176] MRCert: Towards Post-deployment Patch Robustness Certification for Adversarially Patched Samples via Type-specific Masking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10617
作者: Qilin Zhou,Zhengyuan Wei,Haipeng Wang,Zhuo Wang,Shuo Liu,W.K. Chan
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:In post-deployment time, inputs to deep learning models may or may not be adversarially patched. Patch robustness certification on such inputs within a patch bound can verify their label benignity and should retain high prediction accuracy. However, existing smoothing-based and masking-based recovery defenders cannot achieve both simultaneously: they degrade the prediction accuracy much and cannot verify the benignity of the returned label of an adversarially patched input, respectively. We propose MRCert, the first masking-based certified recovery defender that shows the feasibility of achieving both. Unlike all existing works to apply a common condition across both types of input (benign and adversarially patched samples) for certification, MRCert infers type-specific necessary properties of deep learning models for both types in post-deployment time and formally relates them to verify the label benignity through a novel type-oriented design of label recovery and certification function pair. Without incurring the degradation in clean accuracy caused by smoothing, experimental results confirm that MRCert achieves 35.1% adversarial certified accuracy on ImageNet at patch size 16 pixels, whereas the SOTA PatchCURE fails completely.
[AI-177] Verification and Self-Improvement in Agent ic AI: Foundations and Limits
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10611
作者: Chien-Ping Lu
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
备注: 26 pages, 5 figures. Includes proofs and reproducibility artifacts
Abstract:Agentic AI systems can improve by searching longer, receiving additional support, or modifying how they propose and verify outputs. A performance score does not distinguish these mechanisms. We compare these changes through bounded verification with hidden terminal randomness. A stage specifies admissible transcripts, polynomial bounds, an alternating verification protocol, and a terminal checker. Its native reach uses default support; its closure frontier permits all support already admitted by the interface. Under a uniform pointwise probability gap and task-relative soundness, these are well-defined languages. We prove that independent majority amplification preserves both languages, whereas existential acceptance over random tapes can admit incorrect outputs. Exact verification is the zero-randomness case, with placement and completeness results. The randomized-verifier classes satisfy \Sigma_k^\mathrmP\subseteq\Sigma_k^\mathrmRV\subseteq\Sigma_k+1^\mathrmP ; strict enlargement and depth separation require explicit complexity assumptions, while \mathrmBPP=\mathrmP yields exact companions with the same frontiers. Representation analysis separates invariant acceptance from core-versus-support labels that can change under refactoring. For recursive self-improvement, uniformly bounded self-modification under a common sound interpreter and fixed verification protocol remains within the same verification class. A separate conditional-error budget controls false selection across adaptively chosen candidates. A quota-enforced XOR-synthesis family separates unbounded ratios of search success from changes in the accepted languages; exact and probabilistic audits check the resulting evidence requirements. The framework ties self-improvement claims to obligations on correctness, admissible evidence, verification resources, and selection error.
[AI-178] Code Understanding is a Bottleneck for Coding Agents
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10610
作者: Nishant Balepur,Kiran Tomlinson,Tobias Schnabel
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Programming Languages (cs.PL)
备注: In-Progress Preprint
Abstract:Repository benchmarks (e.g., SWE-bench) for coding agents often assume that lines of code edited can predict task difficulty, but such datasets’ poor control over code and task types makes it hard to know which abilities truly drive agent errors. We present CABRA: a Coding Ability Blueprint for Rigorous Agent evaluation. CABRA builds tasks from scratch as call graph transformations and scales difficulty via a task size parameter on four axes: function traversal, search, runtime resolution, and instruction following. We run eight LLMs and six coding agents on 6,840 CABRA tasks to show: 1) LLM accuracy falls as task size~grows, but agents stay near-perfect by offloading work to tools (e.g., grep); 2) Larger CABRA tasks elicit more tool calls for reading and analysis, while a separate study on SWE-bench Verified shows these tool call counts predict agents’ accuracy better than lines of code edited, suggesting task difficulty for agents can lie in understanding code to edit, not just in making edits; 3) Extending CABRA to an intense understanding task where models analyze divergent logic across two classes backs this finding, as agent accuracy finally falls. More broadly, we argue for synthetic evaluations like CABRA to unmask LLM weaknesses trivialized by tools (e.g., needle-in-a-haystack) and abilities beyond just editing (e.g., understanding) that coding agents still find difficult, pairing SWE-bench-style tasks with controlled diagnosis.
[AI-179] Beyond Type-checking: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Formal Specification Generation NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10604
作者: Srijith Nair,Aditya Vempaty,Jia Liu,Ashish Jagmohan
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI for Verifiable Coding (20 pages, 7 figures)
Abstract:When generating verifiable code, natural language requirements are mapped to machine checked code using LLMs and agentic workflows. A crucial component of this pipeline is specification generation (SpecGen), which produces a formal contract against which an agent can prove implementation correctness. Proof generation can obtain deterministic feedback from a theorem prover, but SpecGen lacks a definitive check that a generated specification captures the user’s intent. A checked proof can therefore establish correctness against a specification that misrepresents the intended behaviour. We take a step towards holistic SpecGen evaluation with a unified dataset assembled from 350 existing Lean tasks, including 189 from VERINA and 161 from CLEVER, and a framework covering formal validity, reference similarity and equivalence, and behavioural adequacy. We distinguish acceptance of required inputs from acceptance of valid outputs and rejection of invalid outputs, while making each metric’s evidence scope explicit. Across four SpecGen configurations, restricting the generalized tree edit distance (GTED) comparison, a reference similarity measure, to 32 jointly measurable VERINA tasks changes the VERINA configuration’s position from second to fourth in mean similarity, showing the importance of measurement coverage. In an authored control, a specification achieves 100% positive test recall and negative test rejection while accepting 0% of required inputs. This demonstrates that perfect postcondition scores can miss an unusable input contract, motivating separate feedback on input coverage and output constraints.
[AI-180] Certified Corruption Budgets: Anytime-Valid Leaderboard Claims under Adaptive Rigging
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10597
作者: Hamed Khosravi,Xiaoming Huo
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Methodology (stat.ME)
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Abstract:Public leaderboards for AI models are read continuously, and attackers can see every published standing. Vote rigging, selective disclosure of private variants, and benchmark contamination can each move a ranking. Existing guarantees assume genuine records or bound the corruption per step, which an attacker who corrupts in bursts evades. We introduce the certified corruption budget, a tolerance \widehatB_t computed after t records and published with each pairwise claim. With probability at least 1-\alpha , simultaneously at all times, the claim is correct or more than \widehatB_t records were corrupted. It holds against attackers who watch every certificate, with no bound on their budget. Forged records and records altered once seen require different certificates: the certificate for forgeries fails, with probability approaching one, against an attacker who flips votes it has seen, while one that charges roughly twice as much per record remains valid, with constant bets even against attackers who see the future, and no smaller charge is valid at every level. The certified budget grows nearly as fast as any valid method allows: with a win fraction \frac12+\delta , each new record adds close to 2\delta to the number of forged records the claim can withstand ( \delta flipped). Publishing the best of V private variants costs only an amount growing like \log V . In replays on 1.8 million Chatbot Arena votes, a few hundred rigged votes make standard confidence intervals certify false orderings, while ours stays valid. On real votes, our certificate shows that clearly separated models withstand about 2,000 forged votes.
[AI-181] Agent -Controlled Forgetting for Tool-Using Agents : Reversible Context Curation in Practice
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10590
作者: Jan-Peter Franke
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 13 pages, 1 figure. Code and research artifacts: this https URL
Abstract:Tool-using agents repeatedly carry observations whose useful content can be much smaller than their original payload. We study agent-controlled forgetting: the acting model selects previously observed tool results, replaces each with a short note at its original position, and retains the exact original in a recoverable archive. A Python harness exposes batch archival and explicit recovery without task-specific model training, while protecting user instructions and assistant messages from these operations. In an exploratory OpenTelemetry debugging case followed by an unrelated implementation task, the method ended with 231,951 provider-reported prompt tokens versus 912,492 under retained history, used 50% fewer cumulative input tokens, and had an estimated API cost of USD 1.28-1.44 versus approximately USD 4.38. Both arms passed the two-case primary behavioral oracle; neither fully satisfied the follow-up evaluation. The method made more requests and took 17% longer. A contrasting application-development pair produced no context or cost saving, and an earlier continuation exhibited lower manually assessed quality despite reduced context. These observations demonstrate substantial resource savings in noisy tool-use trajectories and identify workload dependence as a central consideration for reversible context management.
[AI-182] A Survey on LLM -Integrated Hardware Design Verification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10580
作者: Hao Zheng,Jaime Rafael Imperial,Bardia Nadimi,Xiangfei Kong
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into hardware verification to automate specification interpretation, verification-artifact generation, debugging, formal reasoning, and tool orchestration. This survey provides a systematic review of LLM-assisted hardware functional verification across SystemVerilog assertion generation, stimulus and testbench generation, bug localization and design repair, model checking and equivalence checking, SAT/SMT optimization, and emerging agentic verification workflows. We organize the literature by methodology, verification objective, tool interaction, benchmark, and evaluation criterion, and examine both inference-time techniques–including prompting, retrieval, structured reasoning, and agentic workflows–and training-time adaptation. Across these areas, a common pattern emerges: LLMs are most effective as semantic reasoning, search, and orchestration components embedded within verification-aware workflows, while simulators, formal engines, coverage tools, and solvers provide executable feedback and correctness evidence. However, tool acceptance alone does not establish verification correctness, since assertions, tests, repairs, or proofs may satisfy available checks without faithfully capturing the complete design intent. We therefore identify semantic alignment between specifications and verification evidence, scalable integration with deterministic tools, generalization to unseen designs, and rigorous evaluation of correctness, cost, robustness, and human effort as key challenges. Finally, we discuss emerging directions toward specification-centered, neuro-symbolic, and persistent agentic verification systems that combine LLM flexibility with independently checkable verification evidence.
[AI-183] Freeze the Decoder Heal the Encoder: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for SVD-Based KV-Cache Compression
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10552
作者: Yufeng Wang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Preprint, Under Review
Abstract:Comparing parameter-efficient fine-tuning recipes under a single, shared learning rate is a common but flawed practice: when the arms being compared have very different trainable-parameter counts, a shared rate can simultaneously depress the larger arms’ means and inflate their variance, manufacturing a large, seemingly multi-seed-significant advantage for the smallest arm that is not a real effect. We document this confound in a concrete setting: post-hoc SVD-based KV-cache compression, where an already-pretrained model is converted to a low-rank (multi-head-latent-attention-style) cache by factorizing its key/value weights into a down-projection (“encoder”) and an up-projection (“decoder”), after which a short fine-tune (“healing”) recovers the accuracy lost to truncation. Under a shared learning rate, freezing the decoder and healing only the encoder looks like a clear win over healing the decoder or both factors; once every arm is given its own tuned learning rate, that apparent advantage disappears, and encoder-only healing instead reaches parity with the alternatives, at a real, measured saving of 3x fewer trainable parameters and 3x less optimizer-state memory. We verify this parity with per-arm learning-rate tuning and three seeds per configuration on a vision-language model (Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct), at the one compression ratio this protocol covers, and replicate it on a text-only testbed across two backbones. Encoder-only healing is therefore a lower-memory drop-in recipe for retrofitting low-rank KV-cache compression at training time, and the shared-learning-rate pitfall we document and correct is a cautionary result for comparing any fine-tuning recipes whose arms differ in trainable-parameter count.
[AI-184] Synthesis Through Simulation: Generating Coherent Enterprise Data via Scalable Agent -System Interaction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10549
作者: Yipeng Li,Ashutosh Hathidara,Jane Lo,Harshavardhan Abichandani,Gunraj Singh,Atin Ghosh
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Tool-calling agents have become central to enterprise AI, yet training and evaluating them at scale remains severely constrained due to business and legal restrictions on enterprise systems, data, and database schemas. Tabular data synthesis offers a natural alternative, but its effectiveness is fundamentally limited by structural validity and schema availability, while procedure-based approaches yield the opposite weakness, typically lacking distributional fidelity without per-domain authoring. We introduce Synthesis Through Simulation (STS), a schema–free data synthesis paradigm in which an LLM agent generates data by executing operations against policy-enforcing APIs within simulated enterprise environments. Because data is generated through the same environment that defines what is valid, STS guarantees structural validity by construction while decoupling validity enforcement from distribution modeling, allowing each to be addressed independently. The Generalist Populator (GP), STS’s domain-agnostic agent, addresses the remaining challenges of distributional fidelity and synthesis scalability: GP achieves 0.88 average marginal fidelity and 100% constraint satisfaction across all ten environments without access to DB schemas, while statistical synthesizers are inapplicable to seven due to necessary seed data requirements, and schema-privileged agents fail 82% of trajectories on airline environment’s tightly coupled workflows due to brittle task composition. We open-source the full framework, all ten environments, and generated datasets at this https URL.
[AI-185] Prediction-Powered Data Fusion for Treatment Effect Estimation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12332
作者: Yonghan Jung,Shu Yang
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
备注: 35 pages. Code: this https URL
Abstract:Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) identify treatment effects without confounding but are often small, whereas observational studies (OBS) are large but may be confounded. Many estimators combining a small RCT with a large OBS have been developed for the average treatment effect (ATE) and the conditional ATE (CATE). However, existing ATE estimators either make assumptions on the OBS or do not borrow enough power from them. The CATE has been studied less than the ATE. Existing CATE methods either assume the OBS are unconfounded, rely on a model of the confounding function, or accept bias in exchange for lower variance. We therefore propose a framework that, without special assumptions on the OBS, fuses the OBS and the RCT by preserving the unbiasedness of RCT-based estimation while borrowing power from the large OBS to boost precision. Applying this principle, we build an ATE estimator, AIPW-Fusion, with closed-form weights and confidence intervals, and two CATE learners, DR-Fusion and R-Fusion. Experiments corroborate our findings.
[AI-186] Machine Learning Meets High-Energy Nuclear Physics: From Pattern Recognition to Physics-Integrated Discovery
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12293
作者: Xun Chen,Weiyao Ke,Yu-Gang Ma,Long-Gang Pang,Kai Zhou
类目: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
备注: 37 pages, 22 figures, NST accepted
Abstract:Machine learning (ML) in high-energy nuclear physics (HENP) is entering a new stage in which physical knowledge is incorporated more directly into data analysis, simulation, and physics inference. This mini-review focuses on developments that have matured in the past several years. Whereas earlier applications emphasized event classification, pattern recognition, and surrogate models for selected observables, recent work has moved toward physics-integrated workflows: calibrated Bayesian extraction of QCD matter properties, dense-matter equation-of-state inference from heavy-ion and neutron-star data, generative event modeling, neural unfolding of weak physical signals, differentiable inverse solvers, gauge-equivariant and diffusion-based lattice-field samplers, and neural reconstruction of model functions in holographic QCD. We survey recent applications of ML in heavy-ion collisions, neutron-star physics, lattice QFT, and holographic or continuum QCD. The emphasis is not on ML architectures alone, but on how they enter concrete physics workflows, how physical constraints such as symmetries, conservation laws, causality, thermodynamic stability, and topology are imposed, and how uncertainty quantification and validation determine whether an AI-assisted result can support a reliable physics conclusion.
[AI-187] Unlocking the Regulatory Genome by ARGUS: An Evidence-Constrained Agent ic Framework for Interpreting Single Nucleotide Variants NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12281
作者: Pratik Dutta,Matthew B. Obusan,Max Chao,Rekha Sathian,Nimisha Papineni,Ramana V. Davuluri
类目: Genomics (q-bio.GN); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Agentic AI for Biological Discovery (AgenticLS). Code: this https URL
Abstract:Over 90% of disease-associated variants from genome-wide association studies fall in noncoding regulatory regions, yet their functional interpretation remains a central open problem in genomic medicine. Large language models prompted to interpret such variants routinely hallucinate transcription factor (TF) binding changes, fabricate experimental support, and assign biological significance to statistically negligible signals. We present ARGUS (Agentic Regulatory Genomics for an Uncertainty-aware Scientist), which strictly separates deterministic biological computation from LLM-mediated reasoning. ARGUS wraps 458 DNABERT-based TF binding models in a hypothesis-directed investigation loop where a planner selects evidence sources based on current uncertainty, a verifier deterministically interprets each observation, and intermediate results change the investigation path. On variant rs6983267 at the 8q24 cancer risk locus, the same planner produces four divergent trajectories for four TFs. FOXA1 is rescued in 3 steps when real ADASTRA allele-specific binding data (15 experiments, FDR = 0.030) reveals a model false negative masked by saturation. KLF6 traverses 8 steps across ADASTRA, JASPAR motif analysis, and ENCODE cCRE regulatory annotation before abstaining due to mixed indirect evidence. RAD21 abstains in 8 steps after ADASTRA returns a coverage-qualified but nonsignificant allelic test (5 experiments, FDR = 0.65), and SP1, which shares FOXA1’s saturated retained prediction, abstains because no direct experimental evidence exists at this locus. All observations come from real ADASTRA, JASPAR, and ENCODE cCRE queries; none are simulated. A comparison of fixed-priority and LLM-mediated planning shows that the LLM planner reaches identical verdicts with fewer tool calls by declining evidence that cannot resolve the claim under test.
[AI-188] La-Ribo: RNA Co-Design via Geometry-Latent Flow Matching
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12236
作者: Runze Ma,Will Hua,Shuangjia Zheng
类目: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:RNA function arises from the coupling of nucleotide sequence and three-dimensional structure, motivating their joint design. Coordinating global folding with nucleotide-level detail remains challenging under limited structural supervision. We introduce La-Ribo, a generative framework for RNA sequence-structure co-design via geometry-latent flow matching. La-Ribo retains a sparse phosphate-sugar–base scaffold and encodes nucleotide identity and local conformation in residue-wise latents. A shared flow network generates both jointly, and an RNA-specific decoder then reconstructs all heavy atoms. To expand supervision, we construct a quality-controlled corpus of 168,561 RNA structures, integrating experimental data with predictions from three folding models, including 10,631 MSA-supported structures generated in this work. La-Ribo improves designability and codesignability over the evaluated baselines across sampling budgets and two refolding models, and the same prior supports scaffold-conditioned inverse folding without additional training.
[AI-189] MAST: Motif-Augmented Diffusion with Search Tree for Spectroscopic Molecular Structure Elucidation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12067
作者: Chenghao Jia,Mengdi Liu,Hong Chang,Shiguang Shan,Xilin Chen
类目: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Elucidating molecular structures from spectra is a foundational problem in chemical and materials characterization, yet remains challenging due to spectral ambiguity and the vast molecular space. Although recent diffusion-based generators show strong promise for spectra-conditioned elucidation, existing methods struggle to learn robust spectra-structure relationships from limited paired data when relying solely on global spectral representation. Moreover, the repeated full sampling inference strategy incurs substantial computation overhead. To address these limitations, we propose \textbfMAST, a \textbfMotif-\textbfAugmented diffusion framework with \textbfSearch \textbfTree, for joint 2D-3D spectroscopic molecular structure elucidation. MAST introduces explicit, interpretable \emphmotif priors as intermediate evidences throughout denoising, reducing conditional ambiguity and facilitating spectra-conditioned optimization. We further cast diffusion sampling as \emphreward-guided tree search to prioritize high-reward denoising trajectories, yielding a compact set of spectra-consistent candidates under limited budgets. On the QM9S multi-spectra benchmark, MAST achieves \textbf94.89% exact recovery and improves 3D fidelity, while preserving high chemical validity and stability. Code is available at this https URL.
[AI-190] Neural Decoding as Cognitive Inference
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11923
作者: Yi Guo,Changhong Jing,Yong Hu,Yan Liu,Michael K. P. Ng,Shanshan Wang,Shuqiang Wang
类目: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The brain maintains stable cognition despite continuously changing neural activity. How to extract stable cognitive states from variable neural observations remains a central problem in neural decoding. Existing neural decoding methods map neural observations to predefined external labels based on the stimulus-response principle, often capturing recording-specific spurious correlations. Inspired by how the brain infers the world, and specifically by Bayesian brain theory, we recast neural decoding as cognitive inference constrained by brain-intrinsic priors, yielding high-level meta-neural semantic representations. In decoding experiments spanning five neural recording modalities and three cognitive domains (motor, perception and internal mentation), our cognitive inference method reorganized the geometry of neural observation representations, yielding meta-neural semantic representations that exhibited consistent geometric relationships across cognitive tasks and enabled the recovery of stable cognitive states from variable neural observations. Our work provides an account of how the brain maintains relatively stable cognition despite continual changes in the external environment. Cognitive stability is sustained through cognitive inference from changing neural activity, without requiring fixed neural activity patterns.
[AI-191] Elucidating the Space of Enzymatic Reaction: A Unified Benchmark and Pretrained Model
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11694
作者: Yutong Hu,Tianming Huang,Yanbo Zhao,Qiongyu Zhang,Shixiang Tang,Lei Bai,Ziyi Zhou,Liang Hong,Pan Tan
类目: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Existing reaction models primarily learn molecular transformations, whereas enzy- matic reactions depend jointly on molecular structure and catalytic function. We formulate this problem as learning an enzymatic reaction space linking reactants, products, and Enzyme Commission (EC) annotations. To characterize this space, we introduce VenusRX-Bench, a unified benchmark for forward reaction prediction, single-step retrosynthesis, and EC-number prediction. VenusRX-Bench integrates reactions from multiple biochemical databases with standardized curation, leakage- controlled splits, and consistent evaluation. Benchmarking representative chemical and enzymatic models reveals a clear chemical-to-enzymatic domain gap, driven by limited domain data, catalytic-context dependency, and the difficulty of modeling large biomolecular structures. To bridge this gap, we develop VenusRX, a unified T5-style sequence-to-sequence model for enzymatic reactions. VenusRX jointly learns forward prediction, ret- rosynthesis, and reaction reconstruction, with two-stage training on millions of template-expanded reactions followed by real biochemical reactions. In addition, optional EC conditioning incorporates catalytic context, while Molecule Library- Constrained Decoding improves the generation of complex biomolecules. Across benchmark tasks and challenging generalization splits, VenusRX achieves the best or competitive performance on most evaluated settings over representative chem- ical and enzymatic baselines. Moreover, EC information consistently improves reaction prediction, while learned reaction representations support accurate EC prediction, revealing a bidirectional relationship between reaction structure and catalytic function. Together, VenusRX-Bench and VenusRX provide a unified framework for elucidating and modeling enzymatic reaction space
[AI-192] Why LLM Agents Favor Their Group: Stakes Observed Norms and Reputation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11008
作者: Yujiao Chen
类目: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Language-model agents favor their own group because they have watched their members favor each other. The group label alone does little once the decision has a cost; what drives favoritism is observed behavior, and an individual’s own record can override it. We test this in small societies with arbitrary group labels, ten rounds of point sharing, and matched one-shot decisions across fifteen OpenAI models and three Claude models, about 4,400 societies and 3.3 million audited model calls. First, the large effect of a bare group label reported in earlier work appears only when giving others points costs the agent nothing; once the agent can keep points for itself, that effect collapses on every model that shows it. Second, under a stake, interaction history becomes the main source of favoritism: the history effect is statistically positive on 13 of 15 models, reaches about 3.5-8 points out of 10 on 11, grows with the number of rounds played, and extends to labeled strangers the agent has never met. Third, with scripted histories, favoritism falls to near zero under an egalitarian norm and reverses when the agent’s own group is seen favoring the other side; stronger models side with an individual’s record when it conflicts with the group. Group favoritism is thus conformity to observed group behavior, carried to strangers by the label and overridden by individual reputation. The same account predicts responses to betrayal, scandal, and a free offer to change group: public reprimand repairs betrayal better than apology or restitution, allocation punishment remains confined to the offending member, and a formed group cannot be bought but can, on weaker models, be invited away.
[AI-193] From Log-Odds to Shapley Values: An Explanatory Geometry for the Weighted Naive Bayes Classifier
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10642
作者: Vincent Lemaire,Fabrice Clérot
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 15 pages
Abstract:This paper studies the construction of an explanatory space for a weighted naive Bayes classifier from the supervised representation induced by the model. We start from the classical supervised distance based on conditional log-likelihoods and introduce a discriminative reformulation based on log-odds, which is more directly related to the classification decision. We then show that this representation induces a distance that exactly coincides with the \ell_1 distance between vectors of analytical Shapley values, thereby providing a formal explanatory interpretation of the geometry induced by the model. Finally, we empirically compare several supervised distances derived from these representations using a k -nearest neighbors classifier. This work highlights a close link between supervised distance, local explanation, and predictive behavior, from a primarily methodological perspective.
[AI-194] Strategic Governance of AI Models in Earth Science
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10560
作者: Makoto Kelp,Amirhossein Arzani,Patricia Castellanos,Paul Griffiths,Ivan Higuera-Mendieta,Manuel Perez-Carrasco,Viral Shah,Patrick Obin Sturm,James Weber
类目: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
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Abstract:AI foundation models pretrained on weather and climate data are increasingly fine-tuned to Earth science tasks well beyond weather forecasting. Their development and adoption are outpacing the scientific community’s ability to evaluate them. These models are judged almost entirely by benchmark skill metrics, which measure how closely a forecast reproduces a reference product but not whether a model represents the physical processes governing the system it predicts. Forecast skill and physical reliability are therefore distinct properties. The distinction is most consequential under the nonstationary conditions of a changing climate for which these models were never trained. We identify five priorities for the physical evaluation of AI models in Earth science from task-specific emulators to foundation models, spanning training data, fine-tuning, behavioral testing, mechanistic interpretability, and output validation. We recommend three activities for the coming decade: 1) open AI-ready evaluation datasets, 2) a shared reporting standard for physics-based evaluation, and 3) a dedicated research program on the safety of these models.
机器学习
[LG-0] CSF: Contextual Safety Filtering for Motion Generators
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12467
作者: Lizhi Yang,Yiling Hou,Yao Tang,Junheng Li,Daniel Weng,Blake Werner,Aaron D. Ames
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 8 pages, 6 figures, website at this https URL
Abstract:Text-conditioned motion generators produce trackable whole-body motion, but they have no notion of scene-dependent safety: the same action may target an object or a person. Existing safeguards either inspect the prompt, require labeled motion data, or enforce geometric constraints; therefore, they do not directly account for how scene context changes a motion’s meaning. We introduce contextual safety filtering (CSF), a training-free filter that grounds natural-language safety rules in safe and unsafe reference trajectories produced by the generator. For each active rule, safe and unsafe reference trajectories define an affine safety value that a safe reference tracking CBF-QP enforces. Across four pretrained generators with different architectures, CSF activates the intended rules in all explicit and scene-triggered unsafe cases and reduces the danger-event rate by up to 90%, while preserving 88-100% of benign motions. We demonstrate the complete system on a real-world Unitree G1, where it successfully prevents unsafe motions in a variety of scenarios, including interactions with humans and objects.
[LG-1] A Balanced Data Diet: Addressing the Exploration Bottleneck in Mega-Scale RL for Robot Control
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12465
作者: Octi Zhang,Mateo Guaman Castro,Patrick Yin,Ignacio Dagnino,Abhishek Gupta,Rosario Scalise,Byron Boots
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: CoRL 2026. Project website: this https URL
Abstract:General-purpose robots must perform a wide range of tasks from agile locomotion to dexterous manipulation. While sim-to-real reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be a useful tool for this goal, current RL pipelines depend on engineering-heavy, per-task structural priors such as shaped rewards and demonstrations. Recent work has shown that diverse simulator resets, combined with massively parallel simulation, can alleviate much of this engineering burden on several manipulation problems. However, we find that naively scaling this paradigm to more precise or dynamic problems remains non-trivial. While simulator resets can help with exploration, uniformly sampling over this distribution wastes a growing fraction of learning experience on task configurations the policy has already mastered or cannot yet attempt. This makes it challenging to see the expected benefits of scaling parallel environments for RL, since much of the learning signal in a batch is wasted during learning. To mitigate this, we introduce Success Guided Sampling (SGS), a simple adaptive sampler that concentrates RL training on task configurations around the frontier of the policy’s capabilities. Doing so allows large-scale simulated RL to make the most out of the experience in a batch, enabling much more effective scaling to large-scale parallel simulation. Across experiments using up to 2^20 (over one million) parallel environments, SGS enables RL to solve challenging multi-terrain quadruped locomotion and contact-rich assembly tasks that prior methods fail to solve. Finally, we distill the learned manipulation policies into RGB-based policies and demonstrate zero-shot transfer to several challenging assembly tasks on real hardware. Project website: this https URL.
[LG-2] Rounding in Preconditioner Space: Redesigning 4-bit AdamW Optimizer-State Quantization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12444
作者: Hanyang Li,Shao Tang,Daniel Thomas Braithwaite,Gregory Dexter,Leonardo Neves,Aman Gupta,Hiroto Udagawa,Abhishek Shivanna,Daniel Silva,Rohan Ramanath
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 23 pages
Abstract:Quantizing AdamW’s optimizer states reduces persistent storage, but quantization errors propagate through the moment recurrences and perturb subsequent adaptive updates. We redesign 4-bit optimizer-state quantization for AdamW from the perspective of \emphrounding space: the coordinate in which a quantizer chooses between adjacent reconstruction levels. For the second moment, a local analysis of the quantization cell adjacent to zero shows that small mean state error need not imply small mean preconditioner error at the next step. A one-dimensional quadratic construction further shows qualitatively different optimization dynamics under state-space and preconditioner-space rounding. These results motivate Zero-Inclusive Preconditioner-space Stochastic Rounding (\textbfZIP-SR), which retains zero in the second-moment codebook and computes stochastic-rounding probabilities in preconditioner space. As a complementary route, Zero-Excluding EDEN calibration (\textbfZE-EDEN) uses a zero-excluding second-moment codebook and rescales the quantized second-moment block to mitigate the preconditioner distortion caused by the positive quantization floor. Both configurations use 4-bit NormalFloat (NF4) for the first moment, with targeted stochastic rounding of the LM-head first moment during the final 10% of training. Across GPT- and Llama-style pretraining experiments ranging from \textbf130M to \textbf2.7B parameters, both methods reduce TorchAO 4-bit AdamW’s mean validation-loss gap to 32-bit AdamW at every evaluated model size, with the largest reported gap reduction reaching \textbf70%. In full-parameter supervised fine-tuning, both recipes achieve lower validation loss than TorchAO while remaining close to 32-bit AdamW on downstream tasks.
[LG-3] VioLA: Learning Generalist Humanoid Control Policies from Human Data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12435
作者: Mert Albaba,Jens Beißwenger,Anna Manasyan,Daniel Marta,Michael J. Black,Wieland Brendel,Andreas Krause,Georg Martius,Martin Riedmiller
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Teaching a humanoid to follow instructions with its whole body runs into two obstacles. Its action space is large and tightly coupled: legs, arms, and fingers must move together while the robot keeps its balance, which makes joint-level actions hard to learn. And humanoid demonstrations are scarce, so current humanoid generalist policies do not follow new instructions out of the box and are fine-tuned on teleoperated demonstrations of each task before deployment. Human demonstrations exist in far larger numbers, but a person’s motion is not a robot command. We remove both obstacles by changing what the generalist policy predicts. We introduce VioLA, a generalist humanoid policy that predicts body and hand motion latents instead of joint commands. A pretrained body- and hand-controller execute these latents on the robot. Their corresponding motion encoders map human and robot motion into the same latent spaces. A human recording is therefore labeled in the policy’s action space, and the training demonstration pool contains 140.6 million frames, 93.2% of them human. As a result, VioLA follows locomotion instructions on the real robot zero-shot, without task-specific fine-tuning, reaching 100% success where GR00T N1.7 and \Psi_0 reach 16.7% and 0%, respectively. It also reaches 88.6% manipulation success without task-specific fine-tuning. The same approach works across two VLA and one world-action model backbones. A generalist policy trained on human demonstrations alone performs locomotion tasks on the real robot zero-shot. Code and checkpoints will be released.
[LG-4] FAITH: Feasibility-Aware Safety-Filtered RL for High-Dimensional Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12432
作者: Songyuan Zhang,Baljeet Singh,Sarthak Ranjeet Kaingade,Chuchu Fan,Bryan Trinh
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
*备注: 8 pages, 7 figures
Abstract:Safe reinforcement learning commonly places safety and task performance in the same policy objective, where they can introduce competing updates. Safety filters separate them at action execution, but classical designs require an analytic safety function and dynamics model, and standard minimal-intervention filters are myopic to long-horizon task return because they minimize only instantaneous action deviation. Hard projections are also undefined when no safe action exists. We present FAITH, a feasibility-aware, model-free framework that approximates the optimal state-action safety value and amortizes minimal-intervention filtering with a feedforward network. The task policy optimizes the task return through the filtered dynamics, which recovers the feasible constrained problem without a competing safety term in the task-policy update. When no action satisfies the learned safety condition, the same filter approaches the action with minimum predicted peak harm. On a double integrator example and a Safety Gym environment, FAITH achieves the highest return among methods with no feasible-start violations and matches the lowest harm from infeasible starts. On a 29-DoF humanoid, it reaches a 99.95% safety rate while retaining 97% of the unfiltered return in Walking-Avoid, and obtains the highest measured safety rate in Push-Avoid by learning to sacrifice balancing and fall away from the protected region. The same policies are also demonstrated on a real-world Unitree G1 humanoid.
[LG-5] A Unified Bellm an Operator for Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12420
作者: Nishanth Arun Rao,Royina Karegoudra Jayanth,Benjamin Eysenbach,Jaime Fernández Fisac
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Reinforcement learning in safety-critical domains requires maximizing task performance while strictly adhering to safety constraints. Existing safe reinforcement learning paradigms typically force a trade-off: they either require a priori knowledge to provide strict safety guarantees (e.g., safety filters), or they enable joint learning but only satisfy safety constraints on average. In this work, we propose a novel Bellman operator that unifies performance and safety objectives into a joint value function. We show that temporal difference learning with the joint Bellman operator converges under a two-timescale stochastic approximation framework. On the fast timescale, the safety value of the learning joint policy is estimated, while the joint value is estimated on the slow timescale. Convergence is ensured by formulating the limiting dynamics as an occupation-averaged differential inclusion, and showing that it asymptotically converges to a set of limiting optimal safety-constrained task value functions. Theoretically, once converged, the resulting optimal policy maximizes task return while maintaining safety at all times. Empirical evaluations on continuous control tasks with neural approximations demonstrate stable convergence with near-zero safety violations at test time.
[LG-6] Learning Kilometer-Scale Weather Prediction with Global-Regional Alignment
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12401
作者: Guowen Li,Yang Liu,Yujie Wang,Qiuyan Sun,Haoyuan Liang,Juepeng Zheng,Hong Cheng,Haohuan Fu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Kilometer-scale regional weather forecasting is essential for local weather warnings and weather-sensitive decisions. Existing data-driven approaches often rely on numerical forecasts for large-scale guidance or require additional training of global forecasting components. Pretrained global weather models offer an efficient source of large-scale forecasts, motivating their reuse to guide high-resolution regional prediction. However, this coupling requires aligning global and regional representations across different grids and integrating global guidance with local interactions to advance regional states. We propose ScaleCast, a regional forecasting framework that addresses these challenges through Global-Regional Alignment. Its Global-Regional Conversion module aligns joint global and regional representations with regional locations, while the Global-Regional Alignment and Dynamics block combines aligned guidance with regional neighborhood interactions. Experiments using ERA5 global analyses on a 0.25-degree grid and CERRA regional reanalysis at 5.5 km spacing demonstrate improved regional forecasts across surface and upper-air variables, with a single trained model supporting multiple global forecast drivers (i.e., Pangu-Weather, GraphCast, and HRES) without specific retraining. Fine-tuning on HRRR at 3 km spacing further demonstrates the framework’s adaptability to a different regional domain and spatial resolution. Windstorm case studies show improved cyclone positioning and core-pressure estimates, while comparisons with HadISD station observations show closer agreement with local temperature and humidity changes.
[LG-7] Prospective Prediction of OOD Degradation from Source-Side Training Dynamics
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12397
作者: Sasha(Alexander)Monin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We study whether persistent out-of-distribution (OOD) degradation can be predicted before it is directly observed using only source-side training dynamics. In a controlled shortcut-learning setting, a simple logistic regression predictor develops a clear prospective signal, while training time alone does not. Temporal summaries of the source-side quantities are substantially more informative than their current values. When transferred without additional training from a CNN to an MLP, confidence and entropy dynamics retain substantial predictive information. These results provide a proof of principle that source-side training dynamics can contain an early warning signal for future OOD failure.
[LG-8] Marformer: A Transformer for Predicting Missing Data Distributions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12379
作者: Prabhav Singh,Xiheng Tom Wang,Haojun Shi,Jason Eisner
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
*备注: 45 pages, 19 figures; presented in part in a COLM 2026 keynote
Abstract:Real decisions are made under incomplete information. If we observe only some of the random variables we need, we can predict the others. The \textbfconditional marginals over the missing variables are the key ingredient for computing Bayes risk and Value of Information (VOI), the expected gain from acquiring one more observation before deciding. We present the Marformer, a Transformer trained to directly predict conditional marginals given any set of observed values. Like BERT, which is trained to predict missing words from context, the Marformer constructs a hidden-vector representation for each distribution p(X_i) and iteratively refines it through attention to other distributions p(X_j) . Unlike generative approaches, the Marformer does not model the full joint distribution, requires no domain knowledge of the data-generating process, and makes all predictions in a single forward pass. We evaluate across three synthetic domains with missing data—Bayesian networks, discretized multivariate Gaussians, and structured annotation data. The Marformer can match or outperform classical missing-data methods, even when those methods are given the true model family and prior that generated the synthetic data. We also evaluate on a real annotation dataset, where the Marformer outperforms the evaluated baselines at the largest training size. In both cases, the Marformer is substantially faster than the evaluated generative baselines.
[LG-9] Bilevel optimization for data-driven learning of Koopman embeddings using kernel-based autoencoders
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12370
作者: Joel-Pascal Ntwali N’konzi,Feliks Nüske,Stefan Klus
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Koopman operator theory provides a linear framework for analyzing nonlinear dynamical systems and has become a major tool for data-driven modeling. A central challenge, however, is that finite-dimensional approximations computed by methods such as extended dynamic mode decomposition (EDMD) require the dictionary to be specified a priori. Recent machine-learning approaches address this limitation by learning the dictionary from data, predominantly using artificial neural network (ANN) autoencoder architectures. Although kernel methods offer an alternative with greater interpretability and tractability for theoretical analysis, they have received little attention in this setting. We introduce extended dynamic mode decomposition with kernel-based dictionary learning (EDMD-kDL), a kernel-based method for learning finite-dimensional Koopman embeddings directly from data. The method combines ideas from collocation methods and bilevel optimization to simultaneously learn a kernel dictionary and the corresponding Koopman approximation. We evaluate EDMD-kDL against state-of-the-art ANN-based approaches on a range of numerical experiments, including global sea-surface-temperature forecasting and learning directly from video data. Across all tested settings, EDMD-kDL achieves performance comparable to or better than the ANN-based methods. Moreover, in contrast to standard kernel methods, the proposed approach is scalable to large datasets by design since the size of the required kernel matrices depends on the number of collocation points rather than the size of the training dataset.
[LG-10] Closing the Horizon Gap in Policy Optimization for Adversarial MDPs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12362
作者: Mingyi Li,Taira Tsuchiya
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 17 pages, 2 tables
Abstract:We consider policy optimization for online episodic tabular Markov decision processes (MDPs) with adversarial losses and bandit feedback. Policy optimization updates the policy locally at each state and avoids optimization over the occupancy-measure polytope, but its existing regret bounds are larger by a factor of the horizon H than those of occupancy-measure-based algorithms. We close this gap by using regularized Q -functions, which allow us to control the stability of the local updates jointly over all state-action pairs rather than separately at each state. The resulting algorithm attains high-probability regret bounds of \widetilde O(\sqrtHS(H+A)T) for known transitions and \widetilde O(HS\sqrtAT) for unknown transitions, where S is the number of states, A the number of actions, and T the number of episodes. Both bounds improve the horizon dependence of existing policy optimization bounds, and the latter matches the best-known bound. We further extend the algorithm to adversarial linear-mixture MDPs and obtain the same improvement in the horizon dependence.
[LG-11] SplitJEPA: Learning Invariant and Variant Latent Worlds without Reconstruction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12349
作者: Ruijin Hua,Zichuan Liu,Zhuokai Zhao,Yujia Zheng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 23 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables
Abstract:Understanding a dynamical world calls for more than a latent state that summarizes its observations: the state should also be organized into the factors that stay shared across related observations and the factors that vary between them. For example, a robot pushing a cube to a goal should take the same action when the camera shifts or the lights dim, since nothing in the scene has moved. Existing approaches to this decomposition commonly obtain it through reconstruction, so the latent variables must first explain the entire observational world before their organization can be trusted. Joint embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) model the latent state directly and never reconstruct, yet no existing result recovers the invariant and variant parts of the state they learn. How to learn the invariant-variant structure of the latent world without paying for its reconstruction therefore remains open. To close this gap, we introduce SplitJEPA, a JEPA that jointly recovers the latent state and its invariant and variant organization directly in representation space, without any reconstruction. We prove that, under stationary Gaussian predictive dynamics and a full-rank variation condition, SplitJEPA identifies the invariant and variant subspaces up to independent block-wise isometries, without introducing an observation decoder. Since the guarantee needs no decoder, the result extends reconstruction-free latent recovery to invariant-variant block identification. Experiments on synthetic nonlinear systems and robotic manipulation tasks support the theoretical results and show their practical value for both robustness and efficiency.
[LG-12] Ambient Discrete Diffusion: Using the Wrong Data at the Right Time for Data Efficient Learning NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12340
作者: Julian Kleutgens,Mauricio Tec,Claudio Battiloro,Francesca Dominici,Giannis Daras
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 10 pages. Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 Workshops (BeNTo, DiffuLM)
Abstract:We introduce RefineMix, a framework for training discrete diffusion models under severe data scarcity, a common constraint in scientific applications. RefineMix uses out-of-distribution data at selected diffusion times to improve generalization without biasing the sampling distribution. Although this strategy has been explored in continuous diffusion, discrete diffusion presents a distinct challenge: unlike Gaussian noise, masking preserves domain information in surviving tokens, limiting the use of related data at high noise levels. At low noise levels, however, the domains effectively disjoint supports become an advantage, allowing the model to learn from both in-domain and out-of-distribution data without biasing the sampler. We formalize these intuitions and provide a theoretical analysis for the proposed method. Experimentally, across five domain-shift settings, RefineMix matches or outperforms in-domain finetuning and data mixing. For protein sequence generation, finetuning with just 197 in-domain examples nearly doubles the fraction of generated proteins that are simultaneously novel, foldable, and in-family compared to standard finetuning.
[LG-13] asdex: Automatic Sparse Differentiation in JAX
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12336
作者: Adrian Hill,Guillaume Dalle
类目: Mathematical Software (cs.MS); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
*备注: 1 table
Abstract:Many tasks in scientific computing and machine learning require the Jacobian or Hessian matrix of a function. Automatic differentiation (AD) computes these derivatives to machine precision, but materializing a dense m \times n Jacobian requires n forward-mode or m reverse-mode AD passes, one per column or row. For a large class of functions, each output depends on only a few inputs, making the derivative matrix sparse. Automatic sparse differentiation (ASD) exploits this structure in four steps: detection of the input-agnostic sparsity pattern, coloring of a graph to group columns or rows that can share an AD pass, compressed differentiation to compute a compressed derivative matrix with one AD pass per color, and finally decompression into the original sparsity pattern. The number of colors, and hence of AD passes, is often independent of the problem dimension: a banded Jacobian with b contiguous bands, for instance, only ever requires b colors, regardless of its size. asdex offers the first standalone ASD toolkit in the popular JAX ecosystem. With this http URL and this http URL, it provides sparse drop-in replacements for this http URL and this http URL.
[LG-14] Composite Online-to-Nonconvex Conversion with Optimal Oracle Complexity
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12328
作者: Mingyi Li,Taira Tsuchiya,Kenji Yamanishi
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 27 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Abstract:We consider stochastic nonsmooth nonconvex composite optimization, which includes several important problems such as constrained optimization and the regularized training of neural networks. The objective is the sum of a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex Lipschitz function and a convex regularizer, and the function is accessed through stochastic gradients or function values. The goal is to find a point that satisfies a Goldstein-type stationarity condition designed for composite objectives. To our knowledge, no oracle complexity bound for this setting is known under first-order access, and existing complexities under zeroth-order access are suboptimal. To handle this issue, we employ the framework of online-to-nonconvex conversion, which chooses update directions by an online learner and is known to achieve optimal rates for noncomposite problems. We extend the framework to our composite scenario by introducing new losses for the learner, which contain the regularizer itself rather than its linearization and for which a variant of online mirror descent achieves low regret. We show that the resulting algorithm finds such a point with O(\delta^-1\varepsilon^-3) stochastic gradient queries or O(d\delta^-1\varepsilon^-3) function-value queries, where \delta is the Goldstein radius, \varepsilon is the stationarity tolerance, and d is the dimension. These rates match the optimal ones for noncomposite nonsmooth nonconvex optimization, demonstrating that the additional convex regularizer does not worsen the oracle complexity. We also give rates for the smooth case and present numerical experiments.
[LG-15] AdaptLSTM: Efficient Adaptive Online Learning for Cloud Workload Forecasting under Distribution Drift
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12265
作者: Xinhua Miao,Bowei Yang,Zhengong Cai
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Accurate workload forecasting is critical for elastic resource provisioning in web-scale cloud services, where distribution shifts driven by viral content, product launches, and user behavior degrade offline-trained models rapidly. Naive online learning recovers accuracy but incurs prohibitive per-step compute cost. We propose AdaptLSTM, an adaptive online framework that detects drift via validation-calibrated thresholds and applies selective, targeted updates. On the Alibaba Machine Trace, AdaptLSTM recovers 54% of Naive Online’s improvement at 20% cost ( 2.7\times efficiency, p=0.002 over 10 seeds). On the more volatile Container Trace, it achieves 96% at 20% cost ( 4.8\times efficiency, +75% MAE reduction over Static). Unlike classical drift detectors (ADWIN, DDM, Page-Hinkley) which fail to trigger on regression-scale error streams, AdaptLSTM fires 42 times over 301 steps and outperforms matched-budget baselines. Wall-clock profiling shows 1.33\times throughput gain and 45% update-time reduction. The framework is model-agnostic: identical Pareto patterns hold for LSTM, GRU, and Transformer backbones.
[LG-16] RIFT: Relative Isolation From Trees For Anomaly Detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12244
作者: Mark Daniel Szalai,Gabor Horvath
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Isolation Forest (IF) is a widely used baseline for unsupervised anomaly detection. Recent studies provide a closed-form expression for the infinite-forest limit for one-dimensional data. Inspired by the geometric interpretation of this formula, we introduce RIFT (Relative Isolation From Trees), a deterministic anomaly detection method that generates the minimum spanning tree and scores each point by the sum of the apparent sizes of tree edges as viewed from that point. For one-dimensional data, the RIFT score recovers the closed-form IF limit exactly. In higher dimensions, it provides a parameter-free generalization that is deterministic, robust to varying density and clustered anomalies and avoids the axis-parallel artifacts of IF. We further propose an ensemble variant for large datasets. Experiments on synthetic data and the ADBench benchmark demonstrate that the accuracy is comparable to IF, while the ensemble variant exhibits significantly lower variance across random seeds.
[LG-17] raining on the Future: A Delay-Aware Audit of Test-Time Adaptation for Time-Series Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12232
作者: Mohamed Readh Fentazi,Mazene Ameur,Adlen Ksentini
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 34 pages, 9 figures. Code and cached results: this https URL
Abstract:Test-time adaptation (TTA) methods for time-series forecasting update a deployed model, or a small adapter around it, from incoming ground truth. But the label of an H -step forecast exists only H steps later, and real data pipelines add further delay. We build a leakage-free harness in which the label of forecast origin s is released for updates only at step s+d with d \ge H , and enforce this rule inside the released code of four recent TTA methods (TAFAS, COSA, PETSA and DynaTTA), run on their own backbones and checkpoints across five benchmarks (ETTm1, ETTh2, Weather, Electricity and Traffic). As references we add two closed-form correctors: a bank of recursive least squares (RLS) filters combined by a per-coordinate median, with no tunable hyperparameters and 56 microseconds per step on the 7-channel streams, and an ELF-style linear corrector. Under causal delayed labels the picture is asymmetric. On ETTm1 every audited method genuinely adapts, yet the RLS bank still beats three of the four at a fraction of their cost; only DynaTTA beats the bank, only at the minimum causal delay, and at roughly 2,500 times the per-update cost; the ELF-style corrector beats all four. On the other four datasets, the largest statistically significant improvement any published method achieves over its own frozen checkpoint is half a percent, on all four at least one published method is significantly worse than the frozen model at the minimum causal delay, and on drift-heavy ETTh2 longer label delays make every adapter that separates from the frozen model, ours included, significantly harmful. Leaky next-step updates inflate the apparent gains of simple adapters by up to 110%, and the backbone training recipe moves frozen online error by up to a factor of 25, more than any adaptation effect we measure. We release the harness, integration patches and all cached runs.
[LG-18] Verification with Transfer: Exact Information Frontiers and Their Price in Calls
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12211
作者: Hazar Yueksel
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 46 pages, of which 8 pages main text. The Lean 4 formalization is in the ancillary files
Abstract:A verifier that accepts or rejects whole answers reveals little: under a flat prior over k -bit answers, zero error needs 2^k-1 verifications. The usual remedy is to solve related source tasks, either all first, as a curriculum does, or interleaved with verification. We price this remedy in information and in calls. With an exact verifier, the least causal information that any interleaving of source calls and n verifications needs to succeed with probability s is a list rate-distortion function, attained by one observation before any verification. It lower-bounds the expected number of binary source calls, which designed sources meet within 1+\log_25 calls for unique answers and within a logarithmic term in general, where no additive constant suffices. With an exact verifier and fixed sources, moving every call before the first verification preserves all hard caps on calls, although interleaving can save unboundedly many expected calls; under a noisy verifier, source-first protocols can lose unbounded factors in information and in error. For linear banks over \mathbbF_2 , optimal accuracy has a closed form, and after a polynomial-time reduction the budget profile is computable in time 2^O(h^2)\operatornamepoly(J,k+h) for J sources and nuisance dimension h . In these banks, for zero error under a hard cap, the calls beyond the rounded-up information price are exactly those spent on nuisance. Every numbered result apart from two clauses about the planner is machine-checked in Lean 4, assuming two published results. Used as a ruler, the frontier shows a small transformer using all delivered bits at latent dimension 5 and none at 11 within fixed training budgets; in a test with predictions recorded before training, low XOR degree of the target bits did not suffice for their use.
[LG-19] DataSense-Bench: The First Step Toward an AI Scientist
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12190
作者: Yudi Zhang,Mingyu Cao,Lu Yin,Mykola Pechenizkiy,Shiwei Liu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 25 pages. Project page: this https URL . Code: this https URL
Abstract:As claims about recursive self-improvement (RSI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI) proliferate, we ask a simple question: do frontier AI models have a sense of data, i.e., can they reliably select the right data for training? We introduce DataSense-Bench to study this capability through the fundamental problem of data selection and performance forecasting in machine learning. We ask AI agents to select and rank candidate training subsets that can be used to fine-tune a small LLM model. Agents are allowed to inspect the data, write and execute analysis code, and run model forward passes, but can not train the model or access the actual evaluation tasks. We then fine-tune the base model on each selected subset and evaluate its post-training performance under a standardized protocol. We instantiate the benchmark in terminal problem solving and tool use, selecting trajectories from OpenThoughts-Agent and EnvScaler and evaluating on TBLite and BFCL, respectively. We then evaluate the agents along two complementary dimensions: the post-training performance of the top-ranked subset, reflecting the ability to identify high-value training data, and ranking accuracy, reflecting the ability to predict the relative performance of the selected subsets. In our experiments, selection gains over random selection are limited; agents do not reliably rank their selected groups, and ranking ability does not hold consistently across tasks: Astra identifies the best group in all three tool-use runs but in only one of three terminal runs. Analysis of execution traces on both tasks shows that agents often use similar data signals while interpreting their training value differently.
[LG-20] Is Real-World Training Data Necessary for Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12167
作者: Yujing Liu,Yixin Liu,Yue Tan,Xiaofeng Cao,Alan Wee-Chung Liew,Heng Tao Shen,Shirui Pan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 25 pages, 10 figures
Abstract:Generalist graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to build a foundation model that detects anomalies on arbitrary unseen graphs without retraining or fine-tuning. Sufficient data are essential for foundation model training, yet generalist GAD still faces a data shortage, as real-world anomalous graphs are scarce and costly to collect and annotate. To fill this gap, we propose AG-FORGE, an Anomalous Graph generation Forge for automatic synthesis of anomalous graphs, exploring the feasibility of synthetic data-driven training for generalist GAD. Empirically, we find that synthetic data can achieve performance comparable to real-world training, but fail to push the performance boundary further due to the limited capacity of existing methods. To further unlock model capacity as training data scale up, we develop TS-GGAD, a Topology-Semantic coordinated Generalist GAD that captures complementary topological and semantic anomaly evidence, together with a curriculum learning strategy tailored to large-scale synthetic training. Extensive experiments on 14 real-world datasets demonstrate that TS-GGAD, trained on data generated by AG-FORGE, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
[LG-21] oward Optimal Regret in Adversarial MDPs with Stochastic Hard Constraints
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12153
作者: Qian Zuo,Francesco Emanuele Stradi
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We study episodic constrained Markov decision processes with adversarial losses under stochastic hard constraints. Specifically, starting from a known strictly feasible policy with margin d , we seek to obtain optimal regret while satisfying the expected cost constraints in every episode. In this setting, Stradi et al. (2025) show that a carefully designed mixing rule attains regret of order \widetilde\mathcalO(\sqrtT/\min\d,d^2) . Interestingly, they also provide a lower bound of order \Omega(\sqrtT/\rho) for the same setting, where \rho is the Slater margin of the offline problem and can be much larger than d . In this work, we build on their approach to obtain optimal regret dependence on these margins. Specifically, we propose MA-OPS, an algorithm that combines an optimistic search for the Slater margin with a pessimistic evaluation of the selected policies to safely learn a policy with a large feasibility margin. This policy is then used to minimize regret while satisfying the constraints at every episode. In particular, we show that MA-OPS attains regret \widetilde\mathcalO(\sqrtT/\rho + 1/(d\rho)) . Finally, we provide a matching lower bound, showing that the dependence on T , d , \rho in the regret bound is optimal up to logarithmic factors.
[LG-22] Bayesian Optimisation under State-Preservation Constraints
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12150
作者: Gabriel Diaz-Aylwin,Vignesh Gopakumar,Omkar Myatra,David Moulton,Lorenzo Zanisi,David S. Leslie,Henry B. Moss
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:In many engineering design problems, the objective and constraints depend on the state: the solution of a PDE determined by the design parameters. We consider improving a design while holding selected state observables near trusted values, which we call state preservation constraints. Constrained Bayesian optimisation handles these with a learnt feasibility model, but struggles with this problem’s highly anisotropic feasible set. Our central idea is to pre-compute the set of controls whose linearised constraint response stays within tolerance, thereby pulling back the state-space constraint into design space. This linearisation defines an ellipsoid from which we can efficiently draw a large number of well-spread candidates. The underlying linear response map is refined online, and the ellipsoid is rebuilt accordingly. We demonstrate the method end-to-end on our key application - Tokamak divertor optimisation under plasma-boundary preservation.
[LG-23] Large-Scale Benchmarking of Quantum Neural Network Configurations for Financial Time Series Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12148
作者: Jack Waller,Xing Liang,Dimitrios Makris,Rajagopal Nilavalan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
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Abstract:Quantum machine learning, and quantum neural networks (QNNs) in particular, are advancing fields with growing potential. Although systematic comparisons of QNN configurations have been explored primarily for classification tasks, comparatively little attention has been given to regression problems, particularly financial time series forecasting. This study presents a large-scale systematic comparative evaluation of QNN component configurations for financial time series forecasting, using the GBP/USD spot exchange rate as a case study. A grid search across encoding methods, ansatz designs, qubit counts, layer depths, and cost functions yields 1,368 distinct model configurations, each evaluated in terms of prediction accuracy, computational cost, and convergence behaviour. The results reveal unique insights into how the choice of methods influences performance, such as that gate selection and arrangement are more critical to model success than raw parameter count, and that entanglement is a system-level property of the full circuit rather than solely at the ansatz level. The best-performing QNN configuration achieves an R^2 score of 0.985, outperforming a classical BiLSTM baseline. Additionally, the impact of real quantum hardware noise is assessed through execution on the IQM Emerald device, revealing that gate errors and decoherence represent a significant barrier to practical deployment, with gate selection and circuit depth identified as key determinants of hardware noise resilience. Overall, the findings provide practical architectural guidance for QNN design and establish a baseline characterisation of QNN noise sensitivity on near-term quantum devices.
[LG-24] Poster: A Preliminary Study of LLM Distillation Inference CCS’26
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12137
作者: Edward Chen,Yuntao Du
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted as a poster paper at the 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’26)
Abstract:Unauthorized model distillation, in which a model is trained on the outputs of a proprietary large language model (LLM), is a growing threat to model providers. We study distillation inference: determining whether a suspect model was distilled from another model or trained independently. We formulate this problem as a hypothesis test and estimate the behavior expected under each hypothesis by training shadow models: distilled shadow models learn from the teacher’s reasoning traces, whereas independent shadow models learn only from reference answers. The auditor measures how closely each model predicts the teacher’s reasoning outputs and then uses the shadow models to convert the suspect’s score into a calibrated p-value. In a preliminary study using Qwen2.5-7B as the teacher and Llama-3.2-3B for the suspects, our test achieves a true positive rate of 1.0 at a significance level of 0.02. These results demonstrate the feasibility of using distillation inference to detect distillation attacks.
[LG-25] Credal Machine Learning for Risk-Averse Decision Making
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12115
作者: Timo Löhr,Paul Hofman,Maximilian Muschalik,Eyke Hüllermeier
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to guard against worst-case scenarios and predictions that could result in substantial losses. In principle, this can be achieved by training risk-averse predictive models that minimize loss functions such as conditional value-at-risk (CVaR), rather than relying on models that perform well on average. In practice, however, the effectiveness of this approach to risk aversion is undermined by the learner’s uncertainty regarding the true loss distribution and, consequently, the true CVaR. To achieve reliable risk-aversion, we propose a method in which this (epistemic) uncertainty is represented in terms of credal sets, i.e., sets of probability distributions. More specifically, we develop an efficient yet reliable learner that produces predictions in the form of credal sets and combine it with a novel decision rule that maps each credal set to a single predictive distribution for CVaR minimization. Across classification, under distribution shift, and in reinforcement learning, our approach reliably avoids catastrophic decisions, while sacrificing little in expected performance.
[LG-26] Could LLM Watermark Detection be Public?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12106
作者: Georgios Milis,Tom Sander,Tomáš Souček,Heng Huang,Pierre Fernandez
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Watermarking large language models is popular for tracing chatbot and agentic outputs, yet detectors remain unreleased since exposing them could let attackers do targeted edits with the detector’s feedback. However, watermarks are already vulnerable to uninformed tampering attacks. We thus first quantify whether a public detector would be an additional liability in a deployment setting at varying levels of access, from token-level scores to a binary verdict. Second, we introduce a split-key public-private watermarking method that exposes one key through a public detector while keeping the other for full verification and forensics. An informed attacker can only move the public signal, creating an imbalance between public and private scores. We introduce a statistical test for this imbalance, and combine it with the full key verdict in a two-stage mechanism. Third, we evaluate the split-key method on a wide range of removal and forgery attacks, comparing the uninformed to detector-informed settings. Public detection improves removal only at small edit budgets, since plain rephrasing already strips the watermark at a lower quality cost, but it does enable forgery, which the private pipeline can identify. Overall, releasing half of the watermark enables transparency and interoperability, and tampering with the released half stays detectable. This bounds the provider’s liability and questions the need to keep detectors fully private.
[LG-27] SCORE: Spectral Correlation Estimation for Multivariate Gaussians
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12096
作者: Christopher Bülte,Emil Partow,Astha Gupta,Pascal Esser,Gitta Kutyniok
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Neural network-based predictive modeling with high-dimensional structured Gaussian targets requires an efficient and numerically stable, yet expressive approximation of the covariance matrix. We propose SCORE: a scalable framework, combining scoring rule training with an expressive covariance approximation learned in spectral space. For d -dimensional data, the learning task is decomposed into learning the marginal distributions and learning a structured correlation matrix, which enables dense dependencies with linear storage and \mathcalO(d\log d) cost. We utilize the closed form Gaussian kernel score for training, which remains defined even for degenerate covariances and admits bounded gradients during optimization. We characterize kernel scores under invertible transforms and prove exact invariance under unitary transforms. At population level, our two-level objective recovers the true marginals and projects the target correlation onto the representable class; finite-sample PAC bounds show that the errors of the two stages enter additively. We evaluate our model on a variety of tasks with a commonly assumed Gaussian domain: Time-series forecasting, monocular depth estimation, and spatial weather prediction, showing improved performance at lower computational cost.
[LG-28] Exploiting Gradients in Bayesian Inference of Expensive Simulators
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12076
作者: Šimon Soldát,Václav Šmídl
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 8 pages, 4 figures. Code: this https URL
Abstract:Simulators based on differential equations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. They are often used in simulation-based inference to evaluate the posterior distribution of the input parameters based on real-world observations of the simulator outputs. However, inference becomes challenging when individual simulator evaluations are computationally expensive. In such cases, a Bayesian optimization-based active learning approach with Gaussian process surrogate models has been used to maximize the information obtained from a limited simulation budget. Recently, gradients of simulator outputs with respect to input parameters have become increasingly available, yet they are rarely exploited for inference. Even though we only need to learn the simulator input-output relationship, gradient information can provide an additional valuable signal to guide the active learning procedure. This is of particular interest in the case of expensive simulators, when sample efficiency is crucial. In this paper, we demonstrate how incorporating gradient information into the Gaussian process surrogate accelerates Bayesian optimization-based inference under a limited simulation budget. Our results show significant improvement in convergence speed from using gradient information. For reverse-mode differentiation, the inference efficiency gains are maintained when accounting for the additional computational cost. In contrast, for forward-mode differentiation, the inference speed-up does not outweigh the computational costs. These results indicate that gradient-enhanced surrogates are beneficial primarily in problems where the number of parameters exceeds the output dimensionality, where reverse-mode differentiation is efficient. Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures. Code: this https URL Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML) MSC classes: 62F15 (Primary) 60G15, 62L05, 35R30 (Secondary) ACMclasses: G.3; I.2.6; I.6.4 Cite as: arXiv:2610.12076 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.12076v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.12076 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Journalreference: 2026 11th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies (ICMLT), Berlin, Germany, 2026 Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLT69916.2026.11689621 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources
[LG-29] CausalDreamer: Learning Predictive World Models with Latent Disentanglement
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12016
作者: Prince Jha,Nils Lukas,Kun Zhang,Salem Lahlou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:World models for control must capture which aspects of the environment respond to the agent’s actions and which are relevant to reward. Generative world models such as Dreamer 4 consist of a video tokenizer, which encodes each frame into a latent, and a dynamics model, which is pretrained to predict future latents from past latents and actions. Yet the tokenizer is trained with a reconstruction objective, without action or reward supervision, so its latent provides no explicit mechanism to separate controllable, uncontrollable, reward-relevant, and reward-irrelevant information. We propose \textitCausalDreamer, which keeps the tokenizer frozen and re-encodes its latent into a factored representation of four groups along two axes: controllability, where only the two controllable groups receive the action, and reward relevance, learned by predicting the reward from the two reward-relevant groups. The pretrained dynamics model is then fine-tuned to predict the factored representation. We evaluate \textitCausalDreamer and the pretrained world model it starts from with model-predictive planning on 20 MMBench2 tasks: 10 clean tasks seen during training and 10 unseen tasks, of which 6 are manipulated variants of clean tasks with a changed background, object, or maze layout, and 4 are new environments. We normalize returns so that a policy taking uniformly random actions scores 0 and an expert scores 1. \textitCausalDreamer achieves a 14% higher normalized score than the pretrained world model on the clean tasks (0.199 vs.\ 0.175) and a 25% higher score on the manipulated variants (0.307 vs.\ 0.246), while neither model scores meaningfully above the random policy in the new environments. Additionally, our analysis shows that the factored representation separates reward-irrelevant changes, such as a changed background, from its reward-relevant groups.
[LG-30] st-Time Compute for Tabular Foundation Models: Mechanisms Gains and Limits
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12005
作者: Kanghui Ning,Marin Biloš,James T. Wilson,Yilang Zhang,Kashif Rasul,Dongjin Song,Anderson Schneider,Yuriy Nevmyvaka
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Which forms of test-time compute improve the predictions of strong pretrained tabular foundation models (TFMs)? We systematically study this along three axes: adaptation, aggregation, and context construction. Our evaluation spans modern TFMs across the TabArena benchmark, supplemented by experiments on wide and large-scale tables from OpenML. For adaptation, we introduce DiagScale, a diagonal query-key similarity update. It trains only 0.003-0.03% of model parameters and achieves gains comparable to full fine-tuning across three independently pretrained backbones. For aggregation, both pool composition and selection strategy matter. TabPFN-3 already averages predictions from different preprocessing variants of the same data, and adding more such predictions yields diminishing returns. With a broader pool of 96 configurations, greedy selection reduces error by 2.4% relative to the default predictor, but uniform averaging increases error. For context construction, attention-guided retrieval improves TabPFN-3’s predictions on some large tables and supports source pools beyond the full context memory limit. The context expansion methods we test yield no consistent improvement. Taken together, our results suggest that adaptation and selective aggregation yield consistent benchmark-level gains. The benefits of context construction depend more on the task and data regime. Adaptation and aggregation over the same backbone yield further gains when combined, but require substantially more computation than default inference. These trade-offs motivate choosing strategies according to the available computation budget. Code is available at this https URL.
[LG-31] Example-driven Parametrisations for Bayesian Shape Optimisation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11984
作者: Gabriel Diaz-Aylwin,Joseph Neighbor,Abiel Malkani Talwar,Rui-Yang Zhang,Henry B. Moss
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Bayesian optimisation is the natural tool for shape design when objectives are expensive and non-differentiable, but it needs a compact yet expressive parameterisation of the search space. Hand-crafting one is a complex endeavour requiring domain expertise, and often yields implicit infeasible regions, artificial bounds, and coupled, unordered coordinates. We instead learn the parameterisation from a collection of existing designs, applying principal component analysis to the deformations between shapes. The result is a linear, interpretable search space in which the number of components explicitly trades expressivity against dimensionality. Across aerofoils, wings, and radio-frequency cavities, spanning 2D geometry to 3D aerodynamics and electromagnetics, we show improved sample efficiency and the ability to explore beyond the confines of hand-crafted baselines.
[LG-32] CAPABLE: Capability-Aware Policy Adaptation via Behavioral Latent Encoding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11971
作者: Mohammad Khoshnazar,Mohammad Dehghani Tezerjani,Deyuan Qu,Zhiyuan Gao,Yanxiang Zhan,Jeroen Schafer,Andrew Melnik,Qing Yang,Michael Beetz
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
*备注:
Abstract:Vision-language-action (VLA) policies assume the embodiment on which they were trained and can fail when a joint fault changes how commanded actions are physically executed. Existing fault-recovery methods often require task-specific retraining, fault labels, explicit diagnosis, or privileged embodiment information. We introduce CAPABLE, a unified capability-aware adaptation framework for frozen VLAs that integrates self-supervised capability inference with residual reinforcement learning. CAPABLE infers capability, how much of the commanded motion each joint actually realizes and how that motion contributes to end-effector behavior, online from command-response history and kinematics using a temporal encoder shared across joints, Jacobian grounding, cross-joint attention, and self-supervised physical prediction. The resulting representation conditions a residual policy that adds bounded corrections to the VLA arm action without fault labels or faulty-joint identifiers. Across 28 LIBERO tasks, CAPABLE raises success on an actuator excluded from fault training from 24.8% to 59.3%, outperforming a parameter-matched global-history baseline by 17.4 points while preserving healthy performance. Leave-one-actuator-out experiments across six joints show that this transfer is not specific to one actuator, and additional evaluations characterize transfer to unseen fault families and demonstrate recovery on a physical Franka Panda. this https URL
[LG-33] Reliability-Aware Future Conditioning for Temporally Robust Robot Manipulation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11956
作者: Mohammad Khoshnazar,Mohammad Dehghani Tezerjani,Zhiyuan Gao,Deyuan Qu,Max Gandyra,Yanxiang Zhan,Mehreen Naeem,Andrew Melnik,Jeroen Schafer,Qing Yang,Michael Beetz
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:A generated video of a task the robot is about to perform is useful guidance only if it depicts the phase the robot is actually in. We show that temporal misalignment can turn a task-consistent generated future into actively harmful guidance. On CALVIN, a five-frame early shift nearly erases the benefit of generated futures, reducing success from 81.3% to 54.8% against 54.0% without futures; imposed timing shifts reduce it even further to 34.2%, 19.8 points below the future-free policy. We introduce Reliability-Aware Future Conditioning (RAFC), which treats this as a control problem rather than a generation problem. At every step, RAFC estimates how far to trust the received clip and which nearby temporal hypothesis to prefer, falling back toward a static branch when neither fits, and it learns both from task reward alone without shift labels or alignment supervision. RAFC sits on top of Future-Experience Conditioning (FEC), which builds the clip once from task grounding, a robot-free digital-twin rollout, and mask-free video diffusion. Under deliberately off-grid phase shifts and rate mismatch, RAFC substantially improves success under temporal mismatch. Candidate ensembling accounts for most of the recovery near alignment, while learned reliability adds a further 7.0 percentage points over uniform averaging of the identical candidate bank under off-grid shifts. The gain holds on the evaluated task sets and survives on a Franka under natural timing mismatch nobody imposed, where aggregate success rises from 26.7% to 56.7%. All resources will be made publicly available. this https URL.
[LG-34] Interval-valued SHAP in Tree-Based Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11953
作者: Chenrui Zhu,Vu-Linh Nguyen,Marie-Hélène Masson,Sébastien Destercke
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Shapley values are among the most popular feature-attribution explanations. Efficient approaches for computing/estimating Shapley values for tree-based models, which are state-of-the-art for tabular data sets, have been developed. However, it is known that Shapley values can be (highly) unrobust due to small and realistic changes. In this paper, we propose an imprecise Dirichlet model (IDM) based method to analyze the robustness of Shapley values in decision trees and random forests. Technically, it is done by quantifying and analyzing the interval-valued Shapley values when a few unannotated instances are randomly introduced to the leaves of the trees. The interval-valued Shapley values can be defined following common principles in handling incomplete data: the pessimistic and averaging principles. We derive various theoretical results that lead to efficient computation of the interval-valued Shapley values. We also show that the proposed method can be straightforwardly generalized to the case of Banzhaf values. We then present various case studies and experiments to illustrate the behaviour of the proposed interval-valued Shapley values and their applications in debiasing uninformative features.
[LG-35] ACROSS: An Efficient and Low-Cost Scalable Human Touch System Across Heterogeneous Tactile Sensors for Dexterous Robot Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11945
作者: Bo Chen,Huanzhang Hu,Junyang Ma,Bo Yue,Fangdi Yu,Haijier Chen,Xianxin Lai,Shuyu Pan,Zhen Yang,Xiaoquan Sun,Wenze Cui,Zhongliang Jiang,Shaopeng Liu,Jiayu Chen
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Collecting tactile demonstrations on robots is costly and slow, motivating the use of lower-cost human tactile gloves for scalable data collection. However, human capacitive/piezoresistive gloves and robotic tactile sensors differ fundamentally in transduction principle, sensor layout, spatial resolution, and dynamic response, making alignment of raw sensor channels ill-posed. To address this problem, we present TACROSS, a scalable system for learning from human touch and transferring it to robots that bridges this heterogeneity by aligning tactile streams at the level of contact events rather than raw sensor values. The hardware component of TACROSS integrates a piezoresistive glove with five layers and a cost of USD 10.86 with 285 sensing points. To align contact semantics, we design canonicalizers and residual adapters that map heterogeneous signals into a shared tactile latent with 256 dimensions via a temporal Transformer with attention across fingers. We further introduce a robot-grounded policy learning scheme in which robot demonstrations provide the sole source of ground-truth action supervision, while human demonstrations support tactile representation learning and provide confidence-weighted auxiliary supervision through valid retargeted hand targets. We evaluate our system on four contact-rich manipulation tasks. Compared to conventional teleoperation, our proposed system achieves a 3.5-fold efficiency improvement while reducing demonstration acquisition equipment cost by 95.7%. We will open-source the TACROSS hardware and software system and publicly release a tactile dataset comprising over 150 hours of recordings. Project page: this https URL.
[LG-36] Puffin: Probabilistic Learning of Spatial Detail From Coarse Observations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11914
作者: Chaitanya Jobanputra,Sebastian Vollmer,Gerrit Großmann
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 20 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables
Abstract:High-resolution socioeconomic variables are important for applications such as urban planning, public health, disaster response, and resource allocation. In practice, however, these variables are often observed only at a coarse spatial resolution. We introduce Puffin, a probabilistic framework for statistical disaggregation that raises the resolution of coarse totals using high-resolution satellite embeddings as covariates. Instead of predicting a single value for each fine-resolution subregion, Puffin learns a probability distribution and is trained through an aggregation-aware likelihood. At inference, Puffin conditions these predictions on the observed regional total and splits it among the subregions. The resulting fine-scale estimates are consistent with the observed aggregate and come with calibrated uncertainty, without requiring fine-resolution labels for training. We evaluate Puffin on German and US census, employment, and election data across population, jobs, and other count variables, and study when statistical disaggregation succeeds or fails across regions, countries, and targets.
[LG-37] Cost-Aware Mixture-of-Experts Coordination for Model Markets
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11908
作者: Yizhou Ma,Wenbo Wu,Xikun Jiang,Zhuoqin Yang,Luis-Daniel Ibáñez
类目: Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Existing model marketplaces typically trade and select individual models as indivisible units, limiting their ability to exploit complementarities among heterogeneous experts. This paper proposes an MoE-based model market framework that lifts Mixture-of-Experts from a model-level learning architecture to a market-level coordination mechanism. In this framework, brokers use gating networks to coordinate multiple heterogeneous experts and deliver a composite model service. We formalize the market participants, service workflow, expert cost structure, and a welfare objective that combines predictive utility with heterogeneous execution costs. We then derive a cost-aware gating mechanism and market-aware training objective, and introduce a cost-adjusted revenue allocation rule that distributes residual revenue according to realized expert participation and execution cost. We also establish basic theoretical properties of the allocation rule, including budget balance, participation monotonicity, and cost sensitivity. Experiments over five random seeds on fifteen tabular and image benchmarks use independently trained and frozen neural and tree-based experts together with latency-derived execution costs. MoE Market achieves the highest mean welfare on all fifteen datasets and a lower mean expected cost than Standard MoE in every case, while maintaining competitive predictive performance. The allocation experiments further demonstrate systematic sensitivity to expert participation and cost, together with substantially lower computational overhead than exact Shapley allocation. These results suggest that MoE can serve as a market-level coordination principle for collaborative, cost-aware, and economically grounded model marketplaces.
[LG-38] Automated Assembly Instruction Generation from CAD Models Using Grounded Large Language Models : A Human-in-the-Loop Framework
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11896
作者: Aaron Dsouza,Mohammed Azeez Khan,Ashutosh Mishra,Arshaan Khan,Neha K. Nair,Amar Kumar Behera
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 16 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
Abstract:Assembly documentation is a downstream manufacturing artifact that is still usually authored by interpreting CAD models by hand. Structured product data and large language models are both available, yet studies of CAD interpretation, assembly sequence planning, instruction writing, and human oversight have largely proceeded separately. This paper formulates CAD-grounded assembly instruction generation: the production of natural-language assembly procedures constrained by structured engineering information extracted from CAD models. The proposed framework maps a STEP assembly to a typed ProductGraph intermediate representation, derives a precedence order by deterministic topological sorting, realizes each step as language conditioned only on selected graph context, attaches per-step visual documentation, and applies rule-based and model-assisted checks. PDF export remains disabled until a human reviewer resolves every quality flag. The case study establishes endto-end feasibility on a built-in six-part reference assembly: the pipeline preserves a reported assembly order and carries quantity, material, and torque into an exported manual page. Generalization and geometric validation remain open empirical questions. The contribution is an architecture that separates engineering state, deterministic reasoning, grounded language realization, verification, and human release.
[LG-39] Understanding Latent-Dimension Scaling in Dynamical-System Learning through Spectral Reliability
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11866
作者: Itsushi Sakata,Yuta Miyauchi,Yoshinobu Kawahara
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
*备注:
Abstract:In deep learning, approximation theory motivates increasing representation size. We ask whether this benefit extends to dynamics learning through autoregressive prediction. We analyze the learned time evolution through the eigenstructure of Koopman operators, using relative residuals to detect spurious eigenpairs arising even as one-step error falls. For bounded Koopman operators, we show that minimal residuals over learned dictionary spaces converge pointwise to their full-space counterparts as these spaces approximate the observable space in L^2 . Our hypothesis is that Koopman spectral reliability helps explain how consistently rollout error decreases with increasing dimension. We compare two models of a shared Koopman autoencoder trained alternately for reconstruction and latent evolution, using latent-prediction loss (one-step prediction errors in latent coordinates) or spectral-residual loss (relative residuals of candidate eigenpairs). Across six chaotic systems, both models reduced median windowed rollout error from smallest to largest dimension. The spectral-residual model achieved lower medians than the latent-prediction model for all systems and dimensions, and its median fell by a larger factor in every system. Its median decreased monotonically with dimension in four systems, against one for latent prediction. Against four baseline families, its mean valid prediction times were nearly always longer. At the largest dimension under two-stage training, we compared eigenvalue positions with each learned dictionary’s residual contours. Spectral-residual eigenvalues concentrated in low-residual regions, whereas latent-prediction eigenvalues also appeared in high-residual regions, consistent with the hypothesis.
[LG-40] DADP: Dynamic Activity-Dependent Pruning A Reverse Hebbian-Inspired Structural Pruning Method
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11853
作者: Bhushan Deshpande
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 24 Pages, 8 figures
Abstract:Modern neural networks are heavily over-parameterized. This redundancy incurs substantial compute and memory overhead during training and inference. Existing pruning methods rely on post-hoc magnitude thresholds or static initialization heuristics. Consequently, they often require manual per-layer sparsity targets or expensive retraining cycles. We propose Dynamic Activity-Dependent Pruning (DADP), a biologically inspired structural plasticity mechanism. During training, DADP measures connection importance via the accumulated product of pre-synaptic activations and post-synaptic error gradients. Using a single global threshold instead of fixed layer budgets, DADP dynamically allocates sparsity across network depth while naturally inducing neuron- and channel-level pruning. Across MLP, VGG-16, ResNet-18, BiLSTM-CRF, and MiniBERT architectures, DADP matches or outperforms Magnitude, SNIP and RigL, retaining 73.67% accuracy (dense baseline: 76.06%) at 99% sparsity on ResNet-18. Finally, matrix-based Shannon entropy and effective rank measurements confirm that DADP preserves latent feature diversity at extreme sparsities without representation collapse.
[LG-41] Recovery Guarantees for Posterior Sampling of One-Bit Compressed Sensing NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11834
作者: Jing Ma,Yujia Wu,Zhaoqiang Liu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Information Theory (cs.IT)
*备注: Accepted to NeurIPS 2026 (poster)
Abstract:We study the sample complexity of noisy one-bit compressed sensing for signals drawn from a prior distribution. By characterizing the effective distributional complexity of the prior via its approximate covering number, we prove that posterior sampling achieves accurate recovery with high probability when the number of measurements scales with the logarithm of the approximate covering number, up to a one-bit separation gap factor. This upper bound is robust to learned prior mismatch. Specifically, we show that posterior sampling with an approximate prior remains reliable, provided that the learned prior distribution is sufficiently close to the true signal distribution in Wasserstein distance. In addition, we establish a sample complexity lower bound for any reliable method of noisy one-bit compressed sensing, showing that our upper bound is nearly matched in its main prior dependent term. To approximate the ideal posterior sampling process for real world scenarios, we instantiate posterior sampling through a plug-and-play algorithm with diffusion priors. Experiments on the FFHQ and ImageNet datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
[LG-42] Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Cross-Speaker Dysarthria Detection During Awake Craniotomy
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11825
作者: Kanthila Chinmayi(IRDL, LaTIM),Abdallah Nassib(LARIS),Misy Harrison(LaTIM),Panheleux Celine(LaTIM, CHU - BREST),Saliou Vanessa(CHU - BREST),Seizeur Romuald,Dardenne Guillaume(LaTIM)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Sound (cs.SD); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
*备注:
Abstract:Detecting intra-operative speech impairment during awake craniotomy is essential for preserving language function. However, automated detection remains challenging because operating-room recordings contain substantial acoustic interference, clinically relevant speech events are rare, and available cohorts are small and heterogeneous across speakers. This study presents a systematic component-wise evaluation of a pipeline for distinguishing dysarthric from no-trouble speech in the DATABRASE corpus of awake-craniotomy recordings. The pipeline incorporates speaker diarization to isolate patient speech, a multi-view representation combining handcrafted acoustic descriptors with multilayer wav2vec 2.0 embeddings, speaker-conditional normalization and transferability-based feature selection to improve cross-speaker robustness, and a cascaded classifier comprising a gradient-boosted first stage and a neural second stage. Evaluation was conducted under strict speaker-independent conditions using leave-one-speaker-out cross-validation. The results show that cross-speaker performance is influenced more strongly by the speech representation than by classifier choice. The AUCs of three classifiers differed by no more than 4.7%, whereas replacing conventional acoustic descriptors with the multilayer self-supervised representation produced AUC improvements of 18.2%-26.1%. Diarization-conditioned feature extraction and the proposed classifier cascade provided additional consistent gains. These findings indicate that reliable patient-specific speech isolation and strong pretrained representations are more important than increased classifier complexity in low-resource intra-operative settings. They also quantify the potential performance gains that may be achieved through patient-specific preoperative calibration.
[LG-43] PRAXIS: Learning Dynamics of Self-Improving Models with Symbolic Archives
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11803
作者: Venkat Margapuri,Mustafa Teber
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Self-improving learning systems adapt data selection, optimization, and auxiliary symbolic components, inducing nonstationary objectives outside standard learning assumptions. We introduce \textscPRAXIS, a co-evolutionary framework that models generators, learners, and symbolic archives as interacting dynamical processes. We prove that KL-constrained generator updates and controlled archive-weight movement bound one-step objective drift, that archive updates suppress a program relative to any fixed comparator with a persistent cumulative utility advantage under sub-Gaussian noise, and that stochastic gradient descent achieves an average-stationarity guarantee whose degradation is governed by cumulative objective drift. Experiments across visual robustness, relational graph reasoning, and algorithmic graph reasoning exhibit generator stabilization, decreasing learner loss, and archive concentration consistent with these theoretical mechanisms.
[LG-44] Compile the Table: Query-Calibrated Operator Compression for Tabular In-Context Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11784
作者: Xu Zhao,Jiaming Zhao,Bin Zhao,Yong Yang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 24 pages, 7 figures. Includes supplementary material
Abstract:Tabular in-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a training-free and accurate paradigm for tabular prediction, but current approaches to compressing its in-context examples face an accuracy-throughput tradeoff: fixed subsets can sacrifice accuracy, while query-specific retrieval limits cache reuse and batching across queries, reducing throughput. We propose QCOC (Query-Calibrated Operator Compression), which exploits the exchangeability and repeated use of in-context examples by compiling their full KV cache once into compact memory shared across subsequent queries. Instead of retaining raw examples, QCOC clusters their states into joint-KV prototypes, preserves per-cluster multiplicities and the original example count, and calibrates prototype values against attention query vectors produced by the in-context examples through an anchored closed-form solution. Prototype compression drives the speedup, while value fitting helps preserve accuracy. On 64 held-out OpenML-CC18 datasets, QCOC achieves the highest mean accuracy among the compared compression and retrieval methods at both retained counts. Across 12 configurations on seven long tables, it ranks first among compressed methods in ten and averages 0.23 percentage points below full context. Compressing 8,192 in-context examples to 512 memory slots yields a 10.5x cache compression ratio; excluding one-time compilation, in a single-core CPU online-serving comparison over 1,000 queries, QCOC is up to 508x faster than dynamic retrieval baselines and 1.98x faster than full-context inference. These results show that QCOC enables compact-memory reuse and efficient inference across queries while retaining accuracy close to full context.
[LG-45] In-Ride Alcohol-Impairment Detection in E-Scooterists with False-Alarm Control
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11783
作者: Marco Capuccini,Rahul Rajendra Pai
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Shared e-scooter services have become a widely adopted urban transport mode. While most users ride responsibly, alcohol intoxication stands out among the factors contributing to severe crashes. Nonetheless, countermeasures remain limited to single-point reaction tests and night bans that suspend the service altogether. This paper proposes a new approach in which onboard sensors evaluate the rider as the trip unfolds, raising an alarm as soon as enough evidence of impairment has accumulated. Specifically, we introduce a detector that operates on inertial and throttle measurements, with a provable bound on the rate of false alarms. Experiments on sensor data from 141 rides, in which 25 participants rode while sober and at two target blood alcohol concentration levels, confirm that the bound holds, whereas baselines and ablations either exceed it or lose detection performance, and in some cases delay the alarm. At a bound of 0.023, the detector identifies 91% of the rides performed at the higher concentration and 50% of those at the lower one, with median detection times of 25 and 27 seconds, respectively. We further show that an embedded implementation meets the real-time requirement, making mitigation actions feasible onboard, without requiring data to leave the vehicle. Overall, this work lays the ground for interventions that reach impaired riders as soon as possible, sparing the sober ones the burden of a pre-ride test or the suspension of the service at night, while letting operators budget false alarms against user experience.
[LG-46] RAG enome: Scaling Retrieval-Based Genomic Language Models to Long Contexts NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11761
作者: Frederikke Isa Marin,Panagiotis Antoniadis,Dionysia Danai Brilli,Andreas Bjerregaard,Rachael DeVries,Yan Li,Ole Winther,Wouter Boomsma
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 15 pages, 7 figures and 4 tables, Accepted at ML4Molecules workshop at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:The genome holds the blueprint that governs the biological properties of the cell. Consequently, advancing our knowledge of genomic function is crucial both for a broader understanding of biology and for continued biomedical advances. The success of large language models on natural language and protein sequences has motivated similar efforts on genomic data. However, standard genomic language models (gLMs) often require extremely large computational resources and still fall behind traditional methods on some downstream tasks. Recently, MSA-based pretraining has been proposed as an efficient alternative, but existing models are limited to short input contexts, restricting their use to short-range tasks, such as variant effect prediction. In this work, we present RAGenome, the first retrieval-based gLM that scales pretraining to longer contexts (100 \times longer than existing MSA-based gLMs), allowing it to capture both across-species evolutionary relationships and within-species longer-range interactions. Trained on whole-genome alignments from 100 vertebrates, RAGenome substantially improves the long-range capabilities of MSA-based gLMs, raising gene finding performance from 0.45 to 0.60, while remaining competitive on purely evolutionary-based tasks like prioritizing pathogenic variants. RAGenome provides competitive gLM performance at a fraction of the training cost, unifying evolutionary modeling and long-range capabilities within a single, flexible, scalable framework. Code is available at this https URL.
[LG-47] SR-TTA: Spatial-Redundancy Test-Time Adaptation for Interference-Robust Respiration Sensing
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11755
作者: Jingyuan Liu,Zheng Chang,Haoqiu Xiong,Zhuangzhuang Cui,Sofie Pollin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Future 6G networks aim to expose sensing as a native service by reusing communication infrastructure. We study respiration sensing on a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station, where a 64-antenna channel must be fused into a breathing waveform. The state-of-the-art hand-crafted fusion is near-optimal in benign conditions. It collapses, however, under strong in-band motion interference, whose frequency falls inside the respiration band. We show that a learned complex-weight beamformer recovers respiration by spatial nulling, and that the remaining gap to a per-recording oracle can be closed at deployment by label-free test-time adaptation. Crucially, we identify which label-free signal makes this work. Frequency- and variance-based criteria cannot separate an in-band interferer from breathing. Our spatial-redundancy test-time adaptation (SR-TTA), which maximizes consistency across random antenna subsets under an out-of-band spectral veto, preserves benign performance in our tests. The respiration-rate error drops from 5.8 to 0.8 breaths per minute (bpm) under simulated in-band interference, and the pipeline maps onto the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture as O-RAN distributed-unit (O-DU) range-gating, an adaptation xApp, and a calibration rApp. On real testbed recordings, a one-time cross-subject calibration plus SR-TTA reduces failures from 47% to 7%, drawing level with the hand-crafted combiner using label-free test-time adaptation.
[LG-48] he Ball and the Box: Two Geometries of Computation in Superposition
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11744
作者: Xiaoyu Li,Lequan Lin,Dai Shi,Jiaojiao Jiang,Junbin Gao,Andi Han
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Neural representations can encode more features than they have dimensions, a phenomenon known as superposition. We study the dimension needed to compute Boolean gates from such representations. For a single threshold layer with a Gaussian random dictionary and uniformly random sparse Boolean inputs, we derive sharp dimension thresholds under two error criteria. A vanishing expected error count can require more dimensions than correctness of every output with high probability. Shared reads explain the gap: rare realizations can produce many errors at once. The expected-count threshold has ball geometry, while joint reliability has box geometry when a gate is evaluated on every feature tuple. Optimizing shared readout weights and biases gives explicit thresholds for conjunction, disjunction, and majority. For pairwise conjunction, the analysis also describes the transition near the threshold, in agreement with exact simulations.
[LG-49] raceRelay: Attention-Aligned Recurrence over Rolling Traces
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11743
作者: Sungwoo Goo,Hwi-yeol Yun,Sangkeun Jung
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We present TraceRelay, an attention-aligned recurrent architecture that distributes persistent representations over a rolling sequence of low-dimensional traces. Local right looking attention forms increments from lower-layer representations; delivery is delayed until all attended inputs are in the causal past. A fixed additive phase recurrence accumulates the delayed increments, and left-looking attention reads the resulting residual augmented stream. A stride-wise prefix sum supports parallel prefill and bounded-buffer continuation. We study 36 small-model runs on Equal Repeats, bounded Dyck closing-type prediction, and causal Most-Freq generation, using three seeds per setting. At trained length 256, Equal Repeats models with recurrent phase inheritance reach 98.81-99.69% accuracy versus 50.73-51.63% for separately trained variants without inheritance, despite the latter receiving more updates. Accuracy drops sharply at lengths beyond the training range. At the longest evaluated lengths, models with more dimensions in the middle layer’s recurrent traces perform better on Dyck (76.34% versus 55.49% close accuracy at length 4096), whereas models with fewer trace dimensions perform better on five-symbol Most-Freq (70.74% versus 55.60% exact generation at length 1024). These contrasting cases motivate further study of how the size of recurrent representations should be chosen for different tasks, without establishing a general rule across tasks or model configurations.
[LG-50] Correlational Training of Morphological Neural Networks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11740
作者: Konstantinos Fotopoulos,Petros Maragos
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Preprint
Abstract:Neural networks are typically trained using first-order methods and back-propagation. It is unclear whether this approach is optimal for morphological layers whose weight Jacobians are sparse and whose resulting parameter gradients can be poor. In this work, we propose a novel weight update method for morphological neural networks inspired from the Multiplicative Weights Update (MWU) scheme. We view each morphological perceptron as an instance of the learning from experts’ advice problem in logarithmic space, and use a correlation-based reward that favors inputs aligned with the desired output change, regardless of whether a strong gradient signal has reached their weight. We empirically evaluate our approach by training fully connected layers both as stand-alone models and as parts of larger transformer networks. Across nine benchmarks, correlational training yields improvements on eight, by up to 32.84 percentage points, while substantially reducing run-to-run variability.
[LG-51] Spectral Weight Decay: Inducing Low-Rank Structure in Neural Network Weights
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11730
作者: Dmitrii Andriianov,Andrey Veprikov,Aleksandr Beznosikov
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
*备注: 20 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables
Abstract:Standard weight decay treats each weight matrix as a vector and ignores its spectral structure. We introduce spectral weight decay, a post-step decoupled nuclear-norm update that applies additive rather than multiplicative spectral shrinkage. We connect the update to approximate proximal descent and show that its sensitivity to update order can exceed that of conventional \ell_2 weight decay near rank deficiency. Across LLaMA models with 124 M to 500 M parameters, spectral weight decay lowers effective rank and improves SVD-LLM compression at matched validation loss. At 500 M and a 4% distortion budget, it reaches 1.89\times compression and 1.18\times GPU inference speedup, compared with 1.14\times and 1.01\times after standard weight decay. Under fixed-horizon training with 60% label noise, it also improves final mean clean-test accuracy over matched \ell_2 regularization by up to 17.8 points on MNIST and 4.6 points across four BERT-base tasks. Code is available at this https URL.
[LG-52] Addressing Overcommitment in the Reasoning of Gendered Economic Memes under Multimodal Ambiguity
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11724
作者: Kushal Kanwar,Dushyant Singh Chauhan,Kapil Rana,Gopendra Vikram Singh,Nils Lukas
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Multimodal meme understanding is increasingly used to analyze socially sensitive content, yet existing models often exhibit biased behavior when interpreting economic dependence and social roles under ambiguity. Many memes express economic relationships through sparse text or symbolic visual cues, providing insufficient evidence for gendered attribution. In such underspecified settings, models tend to rely on pretraining correlations, leading to hallucinated and stereotypical economic role assignments. In this work, we study gendered economic dependence in image-text memes through the lens of contextual sufficiency and identify epistemic overcommitment-inferring roles without adequate evidence-as a primary source of bias. We propose CGER-Net, a context-grounded multimodal framework that estimates whether the input provides sufficient evidence for gendered economic reasoning and applies evidence-gated inference to enable confident attribution when cues are explicit while favoring principled abstention otherwise. We evaluate CGER-Net on EconMeme-GE, a curated dataset of image-text memes annotated as Men, Women, Neutral, or Ambiguous. Across strong contemporary multimodal baselines, CGER-Net reduces Gender Overcommitment Rate by up to 44% on ambiguous instances while maintaining comparable accuracy on unambiguous cases. Human evaluation further shows that 79% of generated rationales are judged as epistemically aligned with the available evidence. These results highlight the importance of modeling when not to infer for reliable and responsible multimodal analysis.
[LG-53] Does an Illumination Prior Help Face-Swap Detection? A Controlled Study of Temporal Self-Blended Images
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11706
作者: Danil Davydov,Bader Rasheed,Dmitriy Vatolin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Self-blended images are widely used to train face-swap detectors, but primarily capture blending artifacts. We investigate whether adding illumination inconsistencies improves detection. Temporal Self-Blended Images (T-SBI) transfer lighting statistics between frames of the same video, with the mismatch controlled by luminance difference (\DeltaL). Using five training regimes and a three-seed comparison of high- and low-\DeltaL training, we find no evidence of illumination-specific improvements. AUC differences remain within seed variability across four datasets, and an analysis of 506,328 attribute-binned samples shows no preferential reduction in errors under harsh lighting. Instead, T-SBI shifts prediction scores, changing optimal thresholds by approximately 0.34 on FaceForensics++ and 0.30 on Celeb-DF, making comparisons at a fixed threshold misleading. However, T-SBI improves robustness to heavy JPEG compression on DFDC (AUC 0.780 versus 0.696), potentially reflecting greater reliance on low-frequency cues. These findings highlight the importance of evaluating training methods against their intended targets and accounting for threshold effects.
[LG-54] What is the goal of unsupervised machine learning?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11697
作者: Aapo Hyvärinen
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Unsupervised learning is one of the main branches of machine learning. Here I argue that unlike the other branches of machine learning (supervised and reinforcement learning), unsupervised learning is a rather heterogenous field that can serve several different goals. It seems futile to try to define one single goal for unsupervised learning. I identify four different goals for unsupervised learning: 1) Estimating the distribution, 2) Generating new data points, 3) Extracting features for downstream tasks, and 4) Understanding the data.
[LG-55] Camera-Noise Residuals for Face-Swap Detection: Redundant Not Complementary and Why
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11683
作者: Danil Davydov,Bader Rasheed,Dmitriy Vatolin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Fusing a learned camera-noise fingerprint with an RGB appearance backbone is an appealing route to generator-independent deepfake detection, because the noise residual is grounded in image-formation physics rather than in the texture statistics of a particular generator. We test, on FaceForensics++, whether a Noiseprint++ residual channel carries information \emphcomplementary to an RGB Xception backbone for face-swap detection. A three-model ablation (RGB-only, residual-only, late-fusion) shows that fusion does not improve over RGB alone and that the residual branch alone is near chance. A seven-level bottleneck diagnostic localizes the cause: the noise maps do carry a discriminative signal, but it is statistical—carried by the per-sample first and second moments (mean, variance, energy) of the residual—and the per-sample \textttInstanceNorm layer placed at the noise-branch input, following the TruFor template, standardizes exactly those moments away (five-fold cross-validated AUC drops from 0.747 to 0.554 ). A context-crop control rules out cropping geometry, and two fixed-fusion variants that remove the bottleneck recover the statistical signal yet still fail to beat RGB on every dataset. We conclude that, on this manipulation distribution, the noise residual is redundant with RGB rather than complementary, and we give concrete guidance for practitioners adopting noise-residual fusion for face-swap detection.
[LG-56] Early Signatures of Memorization in Diffusion Models via Basin Geometry and Cyclic Denoising
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11670
作者: Nikhil Verma,Siddharthan Dileep,Anoop Singh,Srikanth Sastry,Ramya Hebbalaguppe,Sayan Ranu,N. M. Anoop Krishnan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 42 pages, 24 figures, 7 tables
Abstract:Diffusion models generalize early in training and later reproduce individual training samples. Standard tests detect memorization only once one-shot generation produces near-copies, leaving a released model unaudited until its outputs fail. We show that memorization is encoded in the geometry of the learned energy landscape before it appears in generated samples, a state we call latent memorization. Using score divergence and basin volume, we find that localized basins form around training samples and separate them from held-out samples before the first memorized sample appears, with an onset that follows the same O(n) scaling as the memorization time. We probe these basins with cyclic denoising, which repeatedly applies partial noising and denoising. Under the exact empirical score, we prove that cycling started near an isolated training sample recovers it and returns to it over any finite number of cycles with high probability. In trained models, cycling recovers training images from CelebA and CIFAR-10 checkpoints whose one-shot samples contain no copies, and at a CelebA checkpoint with 0.1% one-shot copies, 500 cycles raise the memorized fraction above 30%. Cycling also reveals degenerate attractors that match no single training image and fade as training proceeds, so residence in a basin does not by itself imply memorization. These findings hold on a Gaussian mixture, CelebA, and CIFAR-10 across optimizers, architectures, noise schedules, and training-set sizes, and extend to off-the-shelf Stable Diffusion v1.4, where the cycled conditional-unconditional divergence gap separates memorized from non-memorized prompts with an AUC of 0.944 and a TPR of 0.866 at 1% FPR. More broadly, what a diffusion model has memorized is a property of the geometry and stability of its learned distribution, and assessing it requires examining this structure rather than generated outputs alone.
[LG-57] Evi-VN: Hard Region Guided Virtual Node Evidence Injection for GNN-Based Fraud Detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11665
作者: Jiran Tao,Yifan Wu,Binyan Jiang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 17 pages, including supplementary material
Abstract:Online platforms contain growing numbers of bots, deceptive reviewers, and scam accounts that imitate legitimate users. Such camouflage blurs graph neighborhoods and behavioral attributes, making it difficult for graph neural networks (GNNs) to distinguish both well-disguised fraudsters and legitimate users. Across diverse GNNs, we observe overlapping errors on a shared hard region, suggesting the presence of latent fraud evidence that graph topologies and standard features fail to capture. Fraud-specific GNNs can mitigate particular graph pathologies, yet they still make limited use of heterogeneous evidence such as structured records, text, images, and audio; uniform multimodal fusion may also disturb nodes already handled reliably by the graph. We propose Evi-VN to learn and correct these shared blind spots rather than build another fraud detector. To our knowledge, Evi-VN is the first graph fraud detection framework to use feature isolated evidence chains to correct hard regions shared across GNNs. Its evidence chains connect behavior, content, and context across structured, textual, visual, and acoustic sources, helping expose camouflage that graph neighborhoods may miss. Crucially, Evi-VN selectively applies this evidence only to likely hard samples via virtual class nodes, preserving both the reliable predictions and the input design of existing GNNs. Shared hard regions also let Evi-VN enhance generic, fraud-specific, and unseen GNNs even with imperfect evidence models. Experiments across bot, fake-review, refund-evidence, and telecom-fraud tasks validate these advantages.
[LG-58] Beyond Action Entropy: Quotient-Space Exploration for Genome-Scale Metabolic Model Repair
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11627
作者: Xuan Gong,Hanbo Huang,Wenbin Dai,Jing Wang,Lei Bai,Xiang Xiao,Weishu Zhao,Shiyu Liang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
*备注: Under Review
Abstract:Repairing scientific models from functional observations differs fundamentally from supervised prediction: feedback may certify a solution without revealing which structural correction is responsible. We study this setting for genome-scale metabolic model (GEM) repair, where multiple reaction edits can explain the same phenotypes and many apparently distinct edits correspond to the same biological mechanism. This many-to-one structure creates a hidden failure mode for conventional exploration: diversity in the output space need not translate into diversity of scientific hypotheses. We introduce QuotientPO, which collapses equivalent repairs into canonical mechanisms and optimizes exploration directly over the resulting quotient space. To make quotient exploration informative under finite rollouts, we derive a kernelized Rényi estimator that resolves graded crowding among distinct repair cores beyond coarse exact-match counts. On 2,212 held-out GEMs, QuotientPO improves Success@32 from 17.93% to 20.10% (+12.1% relative) while consistently increasing distinct successful-core discovery under the same sampling budget. These results establish quotient-space exploration as a principled approach to mechanism-level discovery under verifier-induced equivalence.
[LG-59] Constructing Structured Decision Sources for Consensus-Based Pseudo-Label Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11621
作者: Long Wang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 14 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables
Abstract:Consensus can make pseudo-label learning more reliable, but only when its predictors contribute genuinely different evidence. Multiple models that repeat the same boundary provide additional votes without additional information. We address this problem by con structing decision sources through controlled changes to within-class structure. Starting from a shared graph representation, we vary center granularity and neighborhood mixing, reproduce each resulting source to test its stability, and select a complementary subset using node pair coassignment. Unanimous predictions from the selected sources are then ranked for student training. On the public fixed splits of Cora, CiteSeer, and PubMed, evaluated with five random seeds, the constructed sources improve fixed-budget training pseudo-label precision by 1.19 to 4.39 percentage points over three conventionally initialized GCN sources. Under matched structural filters, three-source consensus is more precise than each constituent source in all 45 dataset slot eed comparisons. The gains are strongest in pseudo-label quality: downstream accuracy remains competitive but does not lead on every dataset. These results identify source construction rather than model count alone as an important design problem for consensus-based pseudo-label learning.
[LG-60] Uncertainty-Aware Optimization for Physics-Aware Highway Trajectory Prediction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11580
作者: Aanchal Rajesh Chugh,Sebastian Dorn
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Accurate trajectory forecasting and well-defined predictive uncertainty are crucial for reliable, safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Most trajectory prediction approaches provide point estimates only, while uncertainty-aware approaches typically quantify uncertainty only in the trajectory space. In physics-aware approaches, uncertainty in the predicted motion variables should be explicitly modeled and propagated through the vehicle dynamics. Otherwise, the resulting trajectory-space uncertainty may not fully reflect the variability introduced by the underlying motion prediction. Therefore, in this work, uncertainty-aware extensions of X-TRACK (X-TRACK-DE and X-TRACK-MCD), a physics-aware trajectory prediction framework, are proposed. The proposed framework predicts future vehicle motion variables and models both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties by propagating motion space uncertainty to trajectory space. Additionally, conformal prediction is applied to the trajectory space predictive covariance to construct uncertainty regions targeting a desired marginal coverage level. Evaluation on the highD dataset shows that X-TRACK-DE improves trajectory prediction accuracy over the deterministic baseline, while both uncertainty-aware variants provide predictive uncertainty that can be conformally calibrated to the desired marginal coverage level.
[LG-61] Best of Both Worlds in Federated LSA: Speedup When Possible Personalization Always
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11555
作者: Safwan Labbi,Paul Mangold,Eric Moulines
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We study personalized federated linear stochastic approximation (LSA), a framework which notably encompass personalized temporal difference learning. In this setting, heterogeneous agents collaborate to solve distinct linear fixed-point equations, each corresponding to an agent-specific learning problem. A central open question in personalized learning is whether a single method can adapt to an unknown level of heterogeneity by converging to each agent’s personalized solution in all regimes while achieving a linear speedup in the number of agents when their learning problems are sufficiently similar. We answer this question affirmatively by introducing PF-LSA, a minimalist algorithm that mixes each agent’s local stochastic update with the average update across agents, at no additional computational cost relative to standard federated methods. We prove that PF-LSA, achieves best-of-both-worlds guarantees without any prior knowledge on the level of heterogeneity. Our analysis is based on a sharp decomposition of the error into consensus and disagreement components. The consensus error decays rapidly, whereas the disagreement error decays more slowly but becomes negligible in low-heterogeneity regimes.
[LG-62] New Lower Bound and Upper Bounds on the Regret for Online Sparse Linear Regression
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11551
作者: Xiaofeng Cao,Junfan Li,Langzhang Liang,Mingwei Xu,Xiao Zhang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: This work was accepted by IJTCS-FAW 2026
Abstract:We study online sparse linear regression (OSLR) where any algorithm is restricted to accessing only b out of d attributes per instance for prediction and b_0\geq 0 additional attributes after prediction, which was proved to be NP-hard. Previous work focused on designing computationally efficient algorithms under regularity assumptions, but did not characterize its information theoretic complexity. In this work, we give the first lower bound on the minimax regret of OSLR and design algorithms with better upper bounds without regularity assumptions. We characterize how minimax regret scales with problem-dependent parameters, capturing the information theoretic complexity of OSLR.
[LG-63] C_4-Equivariant Flow Matching on Anisotropic Power-Diagram Graphs for Microstructure Generation NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11549
作者: Dawid Lipinski,Jixiang Qing,Henry Moss
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 workshops on Representations for the Physical Sciences and Geometric Distributional Deep Learning. 12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Abstract:Acquiring realistic microstructure data through Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) is costly and time consuming, often relying on specialised equipment. As microstructures strongly influence material properties, generating realistic samples is essential for modelling the behaviour of polycrystalline materials. We introduce a generative model for synthesising realistic polycrystalline microstructures using flow matching and graph neural networks. By representing microstructures as anisotropic power diagrams, our model learns a compact geometric parametrisation and can render generated samples at arbitrary pixel resolution. A C_4 -equivariant architecture incorporates rotational symmetry directly into the model, ensuring that rotations of the input noise produce corresponding rotations of the generated microstructure. We also demonstrate how training-free guidance can be used to generate complex microstructures, based on user defined objective function. In particular, we generate microstructures resembling a copper weld, cast metal slab, 3D-printed stainless steel and heterogeneous lamella titanium.
[LG-64] Conditional Transfer from Controlled Pretraining Mixtures to Code
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11548
作者: Ohad Rubin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Synthetic tasks are increasingly used both as probes of language-model capability and as pretraining data. Both uses are often justified by loss reduction: falling loss is treated as informative, and faster loss reduction with more sampling as evidence that a task is worth sampling. We separate three signals. A task is diagnostic when its loss tracks global pretraining progress; it is teachable when its loss responds to its own token budget; and a data source transfers when including it improves a downstream target. We study controlled pretraining in which 70% of the corpus is fixed general Python and the remaining 30% is a simplex over three source families: OpenCodeInstruct, a curated suite of 12 code-adjacent synthetic tasks, and 15 literature-derived probe tasks. Across a task-budget sweep we detect teachability for 14 of 27 tasks, with a sharp asymmetry between the two synthetic families (10/12 curated versus 4/15 literature-derived). Teachability and downstream transfer give different rankings. On the mixture-simplex edge between the curated suite and OpenCodeInstruct, HumanEval pass@20 after a fixed fine-tuning stage rises from 15.9 at pure curated data to its highest observed value, 22.6, at a mixture that is 75% OpenCodeInstruct, then falls to 19.5 at pure OpenCodeInstruct. Curated synthetic data therefore has conditional value: it contributes as a limited share of a mixture that a target-aligned source still dominates. Finally, a loss-based adaptive scheduler exposes the mismatch between residual loss reducibility and downstream transfer. Across three 60k-step free-ratio runs, Ado drives the OpenCodeInstruct share below 5% within the first 5k steps and to 1.2–1.4% by the end of training, and underperforms its matched fixed-mixture controls by 2.4–11.0 percentage points. Optimizing near-term task-loss reduction moves the mixture away from the region that transfers. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11548 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.11548v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11548 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-65] When to Intervene? State-Aware Sparse Manipulation in Federated Reinforcement Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11523
作者: Shutong Zheng,Sijia Chen
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 27 pages, 12 figures
Abstract:Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively train decision-making policies, but its decentralized training process also exposes global policy learning to Byzantine manipulation. Existing poisoning attacks primarily focus on how to construct malicious updates, while trajectory-level intervention timing remains largely implicit. In sequential decision making, however, where an intervention is applied can alter subsequent trajectories and learning signals. Through controlled experiments, we find that changing the selected trajectory states materially alters attack efficacy even when the malicious-update construction is fixed. We therefore identify when as a distinct attack dimension and introduce the Viability-constrained Behavioral Steering Attack (V-BSA), which uses local policy uncertainty to select sparse intervention states and applies envelope-constrained behavioral steering. Across discrete-action benchmarks, V-BSA achieves substantial degradation against robust aggregators and ensemble defenses with only a fraction of the interventions used by dense poisoning, while revealing task- and aggregation-dependent boundaries. Overall, our results highlight intervention timing as a distinct dimension of sequential robustness in FRL. The code is available at this https URL
[LG-66] Rare Gate Disagreements Can Limit Plasticity: When Gradient Flow Mispredicts Finite-Batch SGD
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11475
作者: Ruoyu Zhao,Mingxuan Zhang,Jianbo Dai,Jiaqi Wu,Chenyu Zhu,Tong Che
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 25 pages, 5 figures. Tong Che leads the project
Abstract:Population gradient flow is a common tool for reasoning about how neural networks adapt, including after pretraining. We show that it can mispredict finite-batch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) qualitatively, and we trace the discrepancy to a specific mechanism. In a two-unit ReLU regression, a source task drives the two neurons toward positive proportionality and a target task rewards separating them. After source training for time T , gradient flow recovers on the target in time linear in T . Online SGD with batch size b and step size \eta in both phases instead fails with high probability throughout a horizon of order e^c/\eta once T \gtrsim \log(b/\eta) , uniformly on an explicit set of initializations with Gaussian probability above one percent. For each fixed T , small-step SGD still recovers, so the failure requires the joint limit of small steps and long pretraining. At the target clone, the population instability is carried entirely by inputs on which the two ReLU gates disagree. For units at angle \delta these inputs form a wedge of probability \delta/\pi , and weight decay shrinks the angle exponentially during pretraining. On every other input both units receive the same random linear update, which contracts their separation in conditional expectation. Bounding the cumulative probability of sampling the wedge along the exact online recursion, without a diffusion approximation, shows that recovery with fixed probability from an identical source-gradient-flow checkpoint, within e^c/\eta updates, requires Nb \gtrsim e^\lambda T target samples and batch size b \gtrsim \eta e^\lambda T , where N counts updates and \lambda is the weight decay. In simulations, recovery is approximately a function of the disagreement budget b\delta/\eta and saturates in the horizon.
[LG-67] MotiveMob: Motivation as Semantic Action for Closed-Loop Human Mobility Generation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11442
作者: Mengkun Gao,Zengqing Wu,Renhe Jiang,Jiawei Wang,Yusong Wang,Chuang Yang,Shuyuan Zheng,Makoto Onizuka,Chuan Xiao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Human mobility generation, an important task in urban research, synthesizes trajectory data for urban planning and transportation management. Human mobility can be characterized as a “why-where-when” decision process: people form an intention to move and then determine where and when the corresponding activity will take place. Trajectory generation under user-level and temporal distribution shifts may benefit from explicitly modeling this decision structure. However, many existing human mobility generation methods either represent behavioral intent at a coarse granularity, such as a daily plan or a trajectory-level description, or directly predict future locations without explicitly reasoning about a possible motivation for each movement step. We introduce MotiveMob, a motivation-driven autoregressive framework for human mobility generation that first forms a hypothesis about why the next movement may occur and then jointly generates where and when it may occur. At each step, a motivation predictor conditions on the current mobility state, a long-term behavioral report, and the mobility history to infer a plausible motivation or determine whether the trajectory should terminate. Given the hypothesized motivation, a state predictor grounds it in a candidate next location and arrival time. The candidate then undergoes speed-feasibility and repetition checks before being fed back for the next decision. We evaluate MotiveMob under distribution shifts involving unseen users and unseen temporal periods, including seasonal changes and the substantial behavioral disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Experiments show that MotiveMob consistently achieves better distributional fidelity than competitive pretraining-based and prompting-based methods under user-level and temporal distribution shifts, demonstrating robust generalization to out-of-distribution mobility patterns.
[LG-68] Policy Alignment: New Signals for Membership Auditing in On-Policy Distillation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11423
作者: Yilong Yang,Wenzhuo Shang,Yule Liu,Jiale Teng,Zhuo Ma
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 10 pages, 8 figures
Abstract:On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student model by aligning its policy with a teacher model on trajectories generated by the student model itself. Through this process, the student policy moves toward the teacher on the prompts used for distillation. However, these prompts are often private and costly, creating a need for prompt-level membership auditing. Existing methods mainly rely on likelihood-based confidence signals or student policy drift between checkpoints, but they do not capture the teacher-induced direction of the student update. In this paper, we propose Policy Alignment Membership Auditing (PAMA), a new auditing framework tailored for OPD. Our key observation is that a member prompt directly contributes to the teacher-guided policy update, while a non-member prompt only experiences indirect effects through cross-prompt generalization. Based on this directional trace, PAMA measures whether the student update moves toward reducing the teacher loss on a candidate prompt. Specifically, we introduce Teacher Alignment Gain (TAG) to estimate the teacher-aligned update direction from model outputs, and further combine it with student drift and uncertainty alignment signals for reliable membership auditing. We evaluate PAMA on six datasets and three teacher-student model families. On MATH, the primary evaluation benchmark, PAMA achieves AUC values of 0.791–0.941, improving AUC by 14.6–20.6% over state-of-the-art baselines.
[LG-69] Causal-fate dynamics of unrealized influence
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11422
作者: Yiwei Liu,Luwei Yang,Shunbo Lei
类目: ystems and Control (eess.SY); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 39 pages (20-page main text and 19-page Supplementary Information), 6 figures, 14 supplementary tables. Code: this https URL
Abstract:Many dynamical systems generate influences whose consequences are not fully exhausted in the realized trajectory at the moment they arise. Such consequences are often treated as absent, delayed or statically stored, leaving unclear how unrealized influence retains future relevance as the system evolves. Here we formulate causal-fate dynamics, in which generated influence may be realized, remain latent, or be transformed by subsequent dynamics, and give an exact finite-transport representation when the relevant maps are specified. A connectome-constrained Caenorhabditis elegans model first motivates the biological hypothesis that unresolved inter-neuronal influence may persist and contribute to later propagation; it does not establish such a mechanism in living animals. We next examine operational Internet routing, where a dynamically updated cross-observer history retains predictive information beyond the current local route state. We then use the representation to construct a Transformer architecture that explicitly transports and selectively realizes latent contextual influence while retaining language-modeling function. The three studies distinguish a model-motivated scientific hypothesis, an observational phenomenon compatible with future-relevant history and an executable construction for carrying unrealized influence through subsequent computation.
[LG-70] Refinement as a Service: Algorithmic Predictor Refinement NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11415
作者: Wei Tang,Hanrui Zhang
类目: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: A more compact version of the paper has been accepted by NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Prediction aggregation aims to combine information from multiple predictors into a more informative one. We study this question in the setting of calibrated predictors, where each prediction must equal the conditional expectation of the quantity being predicted given the predictor’s signal. Given several calibrated input predictors and the feature distribution, but not the underlying Bayes probabilities, we ask when one can construct refined calibrated predictors that preserve the information in the original predictors and cannot be further refined using the available information. We formulate calibrated predictors as signaling schemes and define refinement through feature-independent garblings: a predictor refines another if its signal can simulate the other’s signal. Constructibility is characterized through observable linear information: each signal corresponds to a vector over the feature space, and a new signal is constructible exactly when its vector lies in the linear span of the input signal vectors. Under this formulation, we establish a sharp algorithmic picture. For deterministic output predictors, bilateral refinement admits a polynomial-time algorithm based on a bipartite graph between the two input signal partitions, while refinement with an arbitrary number of input predictors is \mathsfNP -hard. In contrast, when randomized output predictors are allowed, we give a polynomial-time algorithm for any number of input predictors by decomposing constructible signal vectors into extreme rays of the associated polyhedral cone. Comments: A more compact version of the paper has been accepted by NeurIPS 2026 Subjects: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11415 [cs.GT] (or arXiv:2610.11415v1 [cs.GT] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11415 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-71] MC-TRCM: Observation-Aware Recursive Fusion for Incomplete Mobile and Wearable Mental-Health Feature Views ICONIP2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11408
作者: Wentao Wang,Lifeng Han,Zining Ren,Hengyu Zhong,Guangyu Zou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted to ICONIP 2026. Code is available at this https URL
Abstract:Public mobile and wearable mental-health datasets often provide summarized feature tables rather than synchronized raw sensor streams. In these releases, each anchor corresponds to a survey or label time and may combine phone or wearable summaries, prior symptom scores, demographics, clinical variables, and source-availability indicators. We propose the Modality-Conditioned Temporal Recursive Context Model (MC-TRCM), which preserves each feature source as a separate token and incorporates missingness as part of the input context. Observed sources are encoded with values and missingness summaries, absent sources use learned absence tokens, dataset and task embeddings condition fusion, and a recursive prediction head refines each output over validation-selected steps. We evaluated MC-TRCM on six predefined endpoints from DepreST-CAT and Prediction of Severity Change-Depression (PSYCHE-D) using participant-level splits and validation-only model selection. MC-TRCM achieved the lowest mean absolute error on DepreST-CAT Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) severity, improving over the best tabular reference by 0.181 and 0.217 scale points. Classification endpoints showed task-dependent behavior: MC-TRCM matched the best rounded GAD-7 category balanced accuracy, was numerically highest by 0.002 balanced-accuracy points on PSYCHE-D multiclass prediction, and remained close to the strongest references on PHQ-9 category and PSYCHE-D binary prediction. Ablations support Feature-wise Linear Modulation, absence tokens, missingness projections, and recursive refinement, while calibration and feature-source controls characterize endpoint behavior. Our code is available at this https URL.
[LG-72] Learning from Hetero Density for Cryo-EM Protein Reconstruction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11403
作者: Xu Han,Chaozhuo Li,Xiaowei Yuan,Yuancheng Sun,Kang Liu,Qiwei Ye
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Reconstructing protein structures from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps is essential for understanding macromolecular assemblies. Although learning-based methods have improved protein reconstruction, information from hetero components remains underused. Our analysis finds both false predictions and reference protein sites near hetero components; filtering nearby candidates can improve or impair chain construction. We introduce CryoCue, a framework that uses hetero information to guide protein reconstruction. An anchor-supervised detector learns hetero representations across five component classes. Multiscale hetero features guide backbone localization, while predicted hetero candidates condition structure refinement through their class, confidence, and frame-relative geometry. Experiments show that CryoCue improves backbone localization near hetero components and achieves more accurate protein structure reconstruction.
[LG-73] PlanWAM: Planning -Shaped Future Representations for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11382
作者: Jinchang Xu,Hongda Yu,Fengwei Dong,Wenhui Huang,Xi Wei,Yongzhi Liu,Sunan Zhang,Jirao Wang,Chen Lv,Bingbing Li,Guodong Yin,Weichao Zhuang
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:World models in end-to-end autonomous driving predict future scene evolution to provide foresight for trajectory planning. Existing methods mainly study how to predict the future and how to use it, but less often ask which future representation is actually most useful for planning. To this end, we propose PlanWAM, a Planning-Shaped World Action Model. The key idea is to let the planning task shape the future-state representation, so that it retains the information most useful for planning. A latent world model then predicts this planning-shaped future latent representation from historical observations and uses it for planning, enabling foresighted planning. Specifically, we first use a Temporal Register Pyramid to compress multi-frame historical information in a recency-aware manner, learning a compact history representation oriented toward future reasoning and planning. We then introduce a privileged future posterior branch that observes ground-truth future frames, and shape its future latent representation with trajectory-planning objectives to obtain a planning-shaped future latent representation. Hindsight-to-Foresight Distillation trains a prior branch that depends only on history to predict this future latent representation. The predicted future latent representation serves as planning context and guides trajectory generation and selection. PlanWAM achieves 93.8 PDMS / 90.9 EPDMS on NAVSIM-v1/v2 navtest and reaches 38.7 HD-Score on closed-loop HUGSIM in a zero-shot setting, demonstrating leading planning performance across both open-loop and closed-loop evaluations. Extensive experiments further demonstrate that planning-shaped future representations provide an effective and deployable form of foresight for world-action models.
[LG-74] SpatialOPSD: Self-Distilling Spatial Intelligence from Verified Coding Agent Traces
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11366
作者: Rongxue Li,Meng Yang,Yiru Mao,Yongliang Tao,Lulu Hu,Bin Yang,Zhao Xu,Weihua Luo,Bowen Xu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Spatial coding agents significantly improve spatial reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by using external tools to generate verified execution traces. However, this paradigm inherently suffers from prohibitive inference-time overhead and external dependencies. In this paper, we explore whether an MLLM can internalize this agentic capability to operate entirely tool-free. We begin with a simple observation: prompting an MLLM with summarized execution traces of a spatial coding agent naturally unlocks the model’s internal spatial Chain-of-Thought (CoT). Motivated by this, we introduce SpatialOPSD, an on-policy self-distillation framework that internalizes spatial reasoning into a standalone MLLM by formulating verified agent traces as privileged information. To mitigate privileged-information leakage during distillation, we introduce Repetition-Aware Distillation, which combines repetition masking with unlikelihood regularization. Experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that self-distilling SpatialOPSD achieves higher average accuracy than SFT and GRPO on both spatial and OOD datasets, exhibiting superior performance and generalization.
[LG-75] Sample-Efficient Generative Conformal Prediction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11349
作者: Minxing Zheng,Shixiang Zhu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
*备注:
Abstract:Generative conformal prediction builds uncertainty sets from samples of a conditional generator, which are efficient only when the samples represent the response distribution well. This can require many samples, each of which can be costly, as in large diffusion models and scientific simulators, so the sampling budget must be used efficiently. Existing methods draw the same number of samples at every input, wasting samples where the response distribution is simple and undersampling where it is complex, which inflates sets and leaves those inputs under-covered. We propose CASA (Conformal Adaptive Sample Allocation), which characterizes the marginal value of an additional sample and allocates samples across inputs to minimize the expected set size subject to marginal coverage and an average sampling budget. Theoretical analysis shows that adaptive allocation yields smaller sets than a fixed count at the same budget: a missed mode forces a radius that spans the gap between modes, and even oracle radius cannot compensate for it. On synthetic and real tasks, CASA produces substantially smaller sets at the same budget, often improves conditional coverage, and complements existing radius-adaptive methods.
[LG-76] NP-Hardness of Minimizing Neurons in Two-Hidden-Layer ReLU Neural Networks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11313
作者: Sangrock Lee
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:A fundamental question in neural network architecture optimization is whether the minimum hidden-neuron count required to approximate a target function within a prescribed tolerance can be computed efficiently. This paper resolves this question for two-hidden-layer ReLU networks under an L^p(\mathbbR^d,\mathbbR^m) approximation constraint. For every fixed d \ge 1 , m \ge 1 , and 1 \le p \infty , we prove that computing the optimum exactly is NP-hard. The result holds even when the target is represented by a rational ReLU network whose realization is nonzero, componentwise nonnegative, compactly supported, globally Lipschitz, and continuous piecewise affine. The polynomial-time reduction from 3-SAT produces an architecture gap in which unsatisfiable formulas yield an optimum of zero, whereas satisfiable formulas yield an optimum of at least d+2 . The proof constructs compactly supported polyhedral frustum functions realized by two-hidden-layer ReLU networks and establishes the L^p -density of finite linear combinations of box-frustum functions. The results offer theoretical justification for employing heuristic approximation methods in the design of ReLU neural networks, illustrating that attaining a minimal configuration within polynomial time is computationally unachievable.
[LG-77] Memorization and Malign Generalization in Conditional Diffusion Models with Random Features
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11288
作者: Gwangho Kim,Sungyoon Lee
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Conditional diffusion models generate diverse, novel, and high-quality samples under prescribed conditions. However, theoretical understanding of their memorization and generalization remains limited, while recent works have characterized these behaviors primarily in unconditional settings. In this work, we analyze a random-feature conditional score model in the high-dimensional proportional limit, deriving asymptotic expressions for training and test losses. By decomposing the test loss, we show that in the overparameterized regime, increasing model width improves prediction of the condition-dependent mean while reducing within-condition prediction variance, a phenomenon we term “malign generalization.” Furthermore, analyzing the training loss reveals that more informative conditions lead to memorization of training samples at smaller widths. These theoretical findings are supported by experiments with U-Net architectures on realistic data.
[LG-78] Residual spectral instabilities in representation learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11257
作者: Zhen Li
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
*备注: 19 pages, 3 figures
Abstract:Learned representations can lose latent degrees of freedom successively, suggesting a cascade of transitions whose underlying stability principle remains unclear. Here we formulate dimension-wise posterior collapse in variational autoencoder (VAE) as a fluctuation theory around partially collapsed states. Interpreting the negative evidence lower bound as an effective free energy, its quadratic expansion defines a Gaussian theory whose Hessian acts as a mass matrix for latent fluctuations. We show that the collapsed directions form an invariant fluctuation sector and derive its exact mass spectrum in terms of a conditional residual operator. A local reactivation direction lowers the free energy when the decoder variance falls below the residual spectral upper edge, with equality marking marginality. The criterion recovers principal component thresholds in the linear Gaussian VAE limit. Viewed in reverse along continuously connected branches, the reactivation boundary provides a local criterion for successive collapse. Numerical continuation experiments show successive loss of latent dimensions near these spectral marginalities. These results support a spectral cascade interpretation governed by residual information left unexplained by the surviving representation.
[LG-79] Low-Cost Sensor Calibration for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring: A Dataset Evaluation Scenarios and a Lightweight Model
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11236
作者: Jinyong Yun,Seokho Ahn,Hyungjin Kim,Sungbok Shin,Young-Duk Seo
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 8 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables
Abstract:Low-cost sensors enable scalable indoor air quality monitoring but require calibration because of nonlinear distortions, noise, and temporal drift. The conventional strict pairwise calibration setting requires a co-located reference sensor at each deployment location and does not account for spatial and temporal heterogeneity. To address these limitations, we introduce a six-month dataset comprising multivariate indoor air-quality measurements from low-cost and reference sensors with contextual metadata collected at five locations. Using this dataset, we define four evaluation scenarios. The reference-efficient and location-transfer scenarios evaluate spatial generalization, whereas the long-term drift and event-conditioned scenarios assess robustness to gradual and abrupt distribution shifts. Based on these scenarios, we derive design requirements and propose a lightweight temporal model that combines input-window compression with residual temporal and feature fusion. Experiments show strong calibration performance across all four scenarios with low edge-inference cost.
[LG-80] SteerCast: Retrieval-Based Latent Steering for Decoder-Only Time Series Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11229
作者: Van Dai Do,Huu Hiep Nguyen,Minh Hoang Nguyen,Hung Le
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Time series forecasting aims to predict future values from historical observations and auxiliary features. We propose \textbfSteerCast, a retrieval-based latent steering method that improves decoder-only forecaster at inference time, without updating its parameters. SteerCast constructs a database from the training set by storing a representation of each history window together with a \emphsteering vector computed in the forecaster’s latent space, defined as the difference between representations induced by the ground-truth continuation and by the model’s own prediction. At test time, SteerCast retrieves nearest neighbors for a query history, aggregates their steering vectors, and injects the resulting signal into the forecaster’s hidden states at every step of autoregressive generation, guiding predictions toward trajectories consistent with similar training cases. Experiments across diverse multivariate benchmarks and multiple horizons show that SteerCast consistently improves forecasting accuracy over the fine-tuned backbone and retrieval-based baselines, while requiring no additional training beyond the original fine-tuning and using only the training set as a retrieval corpus.
[LG-81] Multimodal Graph Retrieval-Augmented Sequential Recommendation via Collaborative Filtering Paths
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11228
作者: Jason Marcell Setiadi,Xin Cao,Lina Yao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted to AJCAI 2026
Abstract:Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for sequential recommendation through their ability to reason over complex multimodal data. However, existing approaches either rely solely on the target user’s own interaction history, neglecting collaborative signals from neighboring users, or incur substantial computational overhead through repeated MLLM inference over long interaction histories. To address these challenges, we propose MGRASRec, a multimodal graph retrieval-augmented framework for sequential recommendation. MGRASRec injects collaborative filtering signals conditioned on the candidate item directly into the MLLM prompt by retrieving structured paths from a user-item interaction graph, extended via multimodal similarity to increase coverage beyond exact co-interaction overlap. This retrieval also surfaces the history items most relevant to the candidate at no additional cost, removing the need for recurrent summarization and keeping inference to a single forward pass per candidate. All components are unified into an augmented prompt for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of an MLLM. Extensive evaluations across three publicly available datasets validate the effectiveness of MGRASRec, achieving the best performance on all metrics with particularly strong gains in ranking quality.
[LG-82] BRACE: Differential Privacy for Dense Associative Memory with LSR Energy
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11218
作者: Chang Qu,Zhaoyang Shi
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Dense associative memory (DAM) provides an energy-based framework for memory retrieval with close connections to attention mechanisms in modern artificial intelligence. Despite growing interest in differential privacy for AI, the privacy of DAM retrieval dynamics remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we develop a differential privacy framework for log-sum-ReLU (LSR) dense associative memory, whose finite-support retrieval dynamics pose distinctive challenges for privacy-preserving computation. We propose the Boundary-Responsive Adaptive Correction Evolution (BRACE) algorithm, a differentially private retrieval mechanism for LSR-DAM that adaptively corrects boundary-sensitive perturbations to control their cumulative effect over the retrieval trajectory. In theory, we prove that our method is minimax optimal by deriving dimension-independent terminal and full-trajectory retrieval error rates, with optimal dependence on the inverse temperature and, in the growing-horizon regime, the retrieval horizon. We further establish central limit theorems that enable uncertainty quantification for private retrieval by characterizing its asymptotic distribution and the additional variability introduced by privacy. Numerical experiments compare our proposed method with baseline differential privacy approaches and evaluate its retrieval accuracy. Together, our results provide a theoretical foundation for optimal privacy-preserving retrieval and uncertainty quantification in energy-based associative memory systems.
[LG-83] Do Flatter Minima Drive Better Generalization? An Algorithmic Separation in Grokking
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11206
作者: Mohnish Harwani
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Flat loss landscapes have long been linked to better generalization in neural networks. However, its role as a causal mechanism for generalization is less established. Grokking provides an unique testbed to understand this distinction: models are prone to fit observed data using non-generalizing structure and remain in that regime for prolonged periods, transitioning to generalization only under particular training conditions. In this work, we study whether flat loss landscapes can act as a driving mechanism in this transition. While recent work has argued for flatness as a necessary geometric condition for this transition, we find that biasing training toward flatter solutions using sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) is insufficient to reliably induce this transition, despite producing flatter solutions. However, when SAM is paired with mechanisms that drive generalization such as weight decay, an interesting property emerges: SAM can accelerate the transition to generalizing solutions by up to 4x at the epoch-level. We theoretically untangle this relationship between SAM and weight decay using a minimal interpolating two-layer ReLU model with both memorizing and generalizing solutions. We show that even in this simple setup, flatness alone cannot distinguish a memorizing solution from a generalizing one, while weight decay favors generalizing solutions. However, under a local stability analysis, there exists a window where a memorizing interpolant is locally stable under gradient descent but unstable under SAM in the low-norm regime, which can explain SAM’s ability to accelerate this transition. Overall, our results provide a more interpretable account of the role of flatness in driving generalization, especially in settings where models are vulnerable to minimizing loss through learning non-generalizing structure.
[LG-84] PageWeaver: KV-Guided Query Unions for Sparse Attention
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11201
作者: Zhiyuan Li,Zihan Li,Zefang Yuan,Lei Wang,Hao Wang
类目: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 11 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Zhiyuan Li and Zihan Li contributed equally
Abstract:Dynamic sparse attention limits the KV pages selected by each query, but a small support does not necessarily yield efficient GPU work. Query unions share page loads and populate Tensor Core tiles; their cost depends on which queries are grouped together. We present PageWeaver, an execution design that uses selected-page affinity to assemble query groups while preserving each query’s original support and complete output ownership. A bounded GPU search produces query IDs, and an ID-aware two-CTA kernel consumes them without materializing reordered Q tensors or cross-page partial outputs. A direct KV-page union implementation provides a complementary design study of nonlocal reuse and reduction cost. With FP8 KV throughout, the H200 Union8 implementation achieves a 1.70x geometric-mean complete-call speedup over the measured FlashInfer path on six captures. Online regrouping further lowers latency by 3.26-7.66% on five selected 64K-context captures. Whole-model prefill throughput is 7.88-14.36% above the tested native path; the incremental regrouping benefit is smaller, with observed median gains of 0.47-0.73% at 32K/64K and regressions at 8K. A B300 comparison identifies cases where preparation cost and a stronger native kernel remove the advantage. These results separate execution-group reuse from the complete cost of exploiting it online.
[LG-85] Predictive Multiplicity in Cell-Fate Assignment: Label-Free Rashomon Sets and the Limits of Per-Cell Certification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11185
作者: Arjun Bhupatiraju,Abhiram Bhupatiraju
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Genomics (q-bio.GN)
*备注: 14 pages
Abstract:Single-cell trajectory inference maps transcriptomic measurements onto developmental continua, yet configurations that fit the data equally well can assign conflicting cell fates. FateMultiplicity is a label-free framework that constructs a statistically admissible model set, or Rashomon set, without lineage labels, by evaluating model discrepancy on cross-fitted held-out genes under non-inferiority testing calibrated against random-seed variation. Multiplicity is large and depends more on the diversity of the model space than its size: twelve configurations of a second algorithm expose 20.0% of cells where twenty-four of the first expose 3.8%. Whether the per-cell certified fate margin FM yields more reliable assignments than the fitted model already provides is then tested, and it does not. On simulation ground truth, on the same cells, FM discriminates misassignment at AUC 0.682, against 0.965 for the baseline configuration’s own decision margin (p = 0.003) and 0.854 for a seed-dispersion baseline. Informativeness is governed by the breadth of the admitted set, not its cardinality: at cardinality four, seed refits give 0.933 and hyperparameter-perturbed sets 0.701. Relaxing the infimum to a q-quantile recovers discrimination but converges toward the single model’s own confidence; the supremum reaches 0.973 because theta*'s membership bounds it from below, while the infimum is unanchored. Multiplicity in trajectory inference is worth measuring and reporting, but per-cell certification over a label-free Rashomon set is not a route to more reliable fate calls. Two constructions survive: a margin-erosion ratio separates real from spurious branch points in simulation (AUC 0.890, untested on real data), and against clonally observed fate, uncertified cells disagree with their clone’s outcome 16.4 percentage points more often than certified cells (p 0.001).
[LG-86] SACQ: Structured Decoding with Memory-Conditioned Refinement for Long-Horizon Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11170
作者: Guo Cheng,Zhengzhuo Xu,Chenchen Jing,Jingyi Hou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 10 pages, 7 figures
Abstract:Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) models predominantly employ patch-based encoders terminated by a flatten readout head that maps the entire encoded historical memory to all future steps through a single shared projection. This implicit coupling of future positions obscures position-specific historical-to-future alignment and amplifies sensitivity to corrupted inputs and extreme supervision noise. We present SACQ, a plug-in structured prediction head that replaces flatten readout while keeping the encoder unchanged. SACQ adopts a two-stage decoding pipeline: it first establishes a coarse patch-grid forecast scaffold, then refines each future position through cross-attention over historical memory and merges the attention-derived correction with the coarse scaffold via a learned per-patch gate. To stabilize optimization under long horizons and noisy labels, we further propose a batch-adaptive scaled log-cosh loss that automatically calibrates robustness to the current residual scale, suppressing outlier gradients while preserving MSE-like sensitivity for typical errors. SACQ attains top-tier test MSE/MAE across PatchTST, DLinear, and patch-Mamba backbones with only modest incremental overhead in parameters and latency. Under inference-time input corruption and training-set label-noise stress tests, SACQ substantially outperforms flatten readouts, with ablation studies validating each architectural component.
[LG-87] CARE: A Lightweight Plug-in Gated Correction and Uncertainty-aware Module for Long-term Time Series Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11165
作者: Guo Cheng,Changlong Lv,Jingyi Hou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 15pages, 2figures
Abstract:Multivariate long-horizon forecasting is critical to electricity load scheduling and traffic flow management, and to financial risk control. Existing deterministic backbones output a single trajectory, masking heterogeneous prediction difficulty across horizons and channels and providing no localized reliability signal. We present CARE (Corrective branch with Aligned context and Relative-error Estimation), a lightweight plug-in that enhances any deterministic forecaster without architectural redesign. Operating in parallel with the base model, CARE resamples historical context to match the forecast horizon, learns residual correction patterns from this aligned history, and applies scale-aware bounded updates modulated by per-coordinate sigmoid risk gates. A multi-objective loss jointly optimizes forecast accuracy, residual tracking, risk alignment, and base-model anchoring. Across eight benchmarks with three representative backbones, CARE improves accuracy with marginal parameter and latency overhead. Its risk gates reliably identify high-error regions: on Weather, the highest-gate tertile exhibits nearly four times the error of the lowest-gate tertile, offering planners an interpretable per-step trust signal. Code is available at this https URL.
[LG-88] RideBench: A Large-Scale Exogenous-Aware Benchmark for Ride-Hailing Time Series Forecasting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11164
作者: Shengsheng Lin,Jing Hu,Zhengyang Hu,Jiazheng Sun,Zichun Cao,Siwei Sun,Zhichao Zou,Enyun Yu,Dongdong Li,Xinyi Hu,Weiwei Lin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We release Ride-Hailing, a large-scale ride-hailing time series dataset synthesized from DiDi’s marketplace data across 200 spatial areas. Ride-Hailing spans four consecutive years at half-hourly granularity and covers three representative exogenous scenarios: Weather Disturbance, Holiday Effect, and Large-scale Event Impact. Built upon Ride-Hailing, we introduce RideBench, a comprehensive benchmark for exogenous-aware ride-hailing forecasting, covering both regular week-ahead forecasting and long-horizon 8-week-ahead forecasting with up to 2,688 prediction steps. RideBench evaluates over 30 representative forecasting methods, including endogenous-only models, exogenous-aware models, and time series foundation models. Our results show that future-known exogenous variables provide clear benefits in regular week-ahead forecasting, especially under weather, holiday, and large-scale event (e.g., major sporting events and concerts) scenarios. However, current exogenous-aware models still struggle to fully capture disturbance-induced pattern changes under complex external contexts. For long-horizon forecasting, existing models cannot simultaneously achieve low pointwise errors, accurate broad trends, and reliable near-term forecasts. These findings reveal a clear mismatch between existing forecasting models and real-world ride-hailing requirements, highlighting the need for models that can better exploit future-known exogenous information, scale across heterogeneous areas, and support long-horizon planning. By introducing Ride-Hailing and RideBench, we aim to encourage the community to study these practical challenges in real-world ride-hailing forecasting.
[LG-89] Ranking Prior Alignment for Credit Risk Modeling: When Do External Priors Matter?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11146
作者: Qiye Lu,Jiang Ji,Liang Zhang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 8 pages, 5 figures, 14 tables
Abstract:Cold-start credit scoring – deploying models with scarce labeled data, weak features, or minimal capacity – is a recurring problem in financial machine learning. When a new lending product launches, labeled default data is scarce, feature pipelines are immature, and models must be deployed with minimal capacity to avoid overfitting. Standard defenses operate on the same limited data; what is needed is a source of external regularization grounded in domain knowledge. We propose Ranking Prior Alignment, a model-agnostic framework that distills external ranking priors (from domain experts, teacher models, or LLMs) into any scoring model via a temperature-scaled KL divergence loss. The framework unifies neural (MIL attention) and tree-based (XGBoost custom objective) architectures through a single formulation: L = L_task + gamma(t) * KL(P_agent || P_model), where gamma(t) follows an exponential decay schedule. The method requires no external model at inference, and its tree-based instantiation tolerates annotation noise up to eta = 0.5. On an industrial dataset of over 1.5M merchants, MIL alignment achieves 7/7 positive evaluation cells at 3K bags (1 ID + 3 OOT + 3 degradation metrics; peak Delta AUC = +0.020 on OOT-1), and XGBoost ablation achieves 9/9 positive metrics at 300 bags. Cross-dataset validation on public Amex shows 5/5 positive folds (avg Delta AUC = +0.041). Four model families (MIL, XGBoost, LightGBM, Logistic Regression) and four teacher architectures show that the framework is both model-agnostic and prior-source-independent. We further observe that alignment gains exhibit an inverse-scaling pattern: benefits grow as data abundance N, model capacity C, and feature quality Q decrease, helping practitioners decide when to invest in prior annotation. Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, 14 tables Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11146 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.11146v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11146 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Qiye Lu [view email] [v1] Thu, 8 Oct 2026 03:11:02 UTC (374 KB)
[LG-90] QUILT: Rethinking Sparse-Attention Prefill through Shared Query Execution
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11134
作者: Zhenduo Zhao,Qihui Zhou,Mingcong Song,Zhiyi Chen,Chuangguan Ye,Fengfan Hou,Zequn Gong,Jing Li,Hongjie Si,Guoping Long
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Sparse attention reduces the cost of long-context attention, but existing kernels typically process queries independently, repeatedly loading and dequantizing KV entries shared across queries. We observe substantial overlap in the KV entries selected by neighboring queries, creating opportunities for cross-query reuse. We present QUILT, a workload-aware sparse-attention execution mechanism that jointly processes neighboring queries and reuses shared KV entries to reduce redundant memory traffic and computation. QUILT introduces Shift-and-Compare Set Decomposition (SCSD), which transforms irregular set operations into regular data-parallel primitives suitable for modern accelerators, and pipelines SCSD with attention computation to hide its overhead. Cascaded sharing captures reuse hierarchically at multiple granularities. A tile-aware execution strategy balances sharing granularity with hardware tile utilization and selectively removes low-importance query-specific tails to eliminate underutilized tiles. We evaluate QUILT on LongBench using GLM-5.3 and DeepSeek-3.2 under both tensor and sequence parallelism. Compared with the state-of-the-art sparse-attention kernel, QUILT reduces average kernel latency by up to 55.1% and processed KV data by up to 55.9%, while reducing time-to-first-token (TTFT) latency by up to 36.8% with negligible accuracy degradation.
[LG-91] Machine Learning Optimization for Enhanced OS Fingerprinting
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11133
作者: Jae Sung Kim,Spencer Ekeroth,Jeremy Neale
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Abstract:Operating System (OS) Fingerprinting is a technique that can be used to identify a network’s operating systems by evaluating network traffic in the form of TCP/IP packets. This research will explore the effectiveness of passively identifying operating systems on the CIC-IDS2017 dataset, a collection of over 47 gigabytes of pcap files with their corresponding operating systems. This research also proposes a new command line interface, OsirisML, which uses nPrint to preprocess the data into tabular data and XGBoost to apply ML to the data to generate, retrain, and test ML models. When packets are split randomly between training and testing, OsirisML models reach an accuracy of 97.66% on a down-sampled subset of the Friday capture and 84.69% on the entire capture. On the entire Monday capture, which contains no attacks, OsirisML reaches an accuracy of 73.83% and an F-1 score of 79.38%.
[LG-92] Dynamics as Code: On Model Compression via Dynamic System
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11115
作者: Fan Gao,Wei Su,Juntong Fan,Renfeng Peng,Hongyu Liu,Jinqiao Duan,Feng-Lei Fan
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 17 pages including supplementary material
Abstract:The escalating size of pretrained neural networks has rendered model compression a prerequisite for deployment under stringent memory and compute constraints. With the irrational winding as an example, earlier work introduced a dynamic system (DS) paradigm that reconceptualizes compression as compact weight representation: high-dimensional parameters are encoded by the index of a trajectory produced by a dynamic system, from which the vector is recovered during decompression. This mechanism is fundamentally distinct from pruning, quantization, knowledge distillation, and low-rank decomposition. Along this direction, we prove that under a Diophantine condition, a finite trajectory of (M = O(\epsilon^-(d+\nu))) states in the irrational winding constitutes an (\epsilon)-net over the (d)-dimensional weight space, thereby linking state resolution, decompression error, and compression ratio in a predictable manner. Furthermore, we propose a generalized DS-based model compression framework by unifying four DS families—space-filling curves (Hilbert, Peano, Morton/Z-order, Snake), chaotic systems (Lorenz), congruential and pseudo-random generators (LCG, PCG), and low-discrepancy sequences (Halton). Also, we introduce the KD-tree and coordinate-template acceleration to scale to large models as well as outlier identification to control the error. Experiments on ResNet-18 and Qwen2.5-1.5B/Qwen1.5-7B validate that DS-based compression achieves competitive compression ratios without post-hoc retraining, with controllable decompression error and flexible state-space design, establishing it as a principled and practical compression approach.
[LG-93] Cova-PINN: Cross-Domain Conservation Physics-Informed Neural Network for Fluid-Solid Conjugate Heat Transfer in Complex Geometries
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11108
作者: Weizheng Zhang,Xunjie Xie,Hao Pan,Lin Lu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
*备注:
Abstract:Multi-domain physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) flexibly model medium-specific representations to solve fluid–solid conjugate heat transfer (CHT). However, standard multi-domain PINNs enforce governing equations and interface conditions on separately sampled domain supports, which can yield plausible temperature fields but inaccurate end-to-end energy transfer and outlet temperatures. We propose Cova-PINN, a multi-domain PINN framework that aligns conservation support with thermal interaction paths in complex geometries. Cova-PINN jointly optimizes cross-domain composite control-volume balances at the local scale and paired-wall closure at the global exchanger scale. We evaluate Cova-PINN on four triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) heat exchangers and a geometrically distinct DualMS design against CHT-specific, optimization-oriented, and complex-geometry PINN baselines under a common protocol. Relative to the closest baseline, MUSA-PINN-CHT, Cova-PINN reduces average outlet-temperature and device-level closure errors across the four TPMS topologies by 37.7% and 60.2% , respectively, while also improving full-field and heat-duty accuracy, with consistent gains on DualMS.
[LG-94] DaCe-DT: Data-Centric Offline Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Prompts and Trajectory Correction for Heterogeneous Tasks NEURIPS-2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11085
作者: Xinfei Wang,Shanchen Pang,Chenhao Zhang,Shudong Wang,Wenhao Ji,Haiyuan Gui,Meng Han,Xiaojian Liao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 25 pages,NeurIPS-2026
Abstract:Offline multi-task reinforcement learning (Offline MTRL) heavily depends on the quality and distribution of pre-collected data. However, existing methods mainly focus on algorithmic optimization, with less emphasis on data-level improvements to enhance learning ability and generalization performance. This paper, from a data perspective, reveals three key bottlenecks that limit Offline MTRL performance:(i) ineffective utilization of prompts length under diverse task complexities, and (ii) semantic irrelevance of randomly sampled prompt segments, (iii) misleading supervision induced by fragmented and discontinuous trajectories. To address these challenges, we propose DaCe-DT, a robust offline MTRL framework designed to be insensitive to heterogeneous task complexities and data quality, featuring length-gated prompt masking (LGPM), retrieval-augmented prompt construction (RAPC), and value-adaptive return calibration (VARC). Together, these mechanisms enable DaCe-DT to deliver data-centric prompt adaptation and trajectory refinement, resulting in robust multi-task generalization and stable policy learning amid heterogeneous offline data and tasks. Experimental results on Meta-World show that DaCe-DT consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving an average improvement of 11.73% on optimal datasets and an improvement of 13.34% on suboptimal datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness in learning stably from imperfect data and improving overall multi-task performance.
[LG-95] Optimally Pacing Budget Spending and Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11074
作者: Mark Braverman,Jingyi Liu,Jieming Mao,Jon Schneider,Eric Xue
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
*备注:
Abstract:We establish near-optimal regret bounds for budget-constrained online learning against arbitrary classes of budget-pacing experts in the adversarial setting. In particular, given any class of F experts and a candidate budget pacing schedule, we provide a full-information algorithm which obtains regret O(D \sqrt\log F+ \sqrtT\log F) against all experts whose cumulative spending stays within distance D of this schedule, matching lower bounds established by Braverman et al. (2025). We additionally show that our technique extends to various problems in online resource allocation, where the learner gets to see the rewards and costs of the current options available to them, and establish O(D\sqrt\log F) regret bounds when fractional allocation is allowed. This is the first algorithm we are aware of which can achieve o(\sqrtT) guarantees for such tasks. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) Cite as: arXiv:2610.11074 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.11074v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.11074 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-96] CityDeploy-Bench: Benchmarking Physics-Grounded Spatial Set Planning for Multi-Transmitter Network Deployment
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11065
作者: Chenyang Yuan,Xiaoyuan Cheng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Automating city-scale wireless deployment remains challenging under complex urban propagation and network-wide interference. We introduce \textbfCityDeploy-Bench, a benchmark that reframes multi-transmitter deployment as \emphphysics-grounded spatial set planning under a unified ray-tracing verifier. The benchmark separates utility representation from planning dynamics, enabling controlled comparison between direct scalar rewards, relational models, and higher-order interaction structures across diverse planners. Our experiments reveal a clear transition in planning behavior as physical coupling grows. Deployment quality becomes increasingly dependent on whether the learned utility captures collective transmitter interactions, whereas stronger search alone cannot compensate for missing relational structure. This establishes multi-transmitter deployment as a coordination problem over physically interacting sets rather than a collection of independent spatial decisions. We release CityDeploy-Data and the benchmark framework as a reproducible testbed for research linking decision learning with physically grounded wireless network design.
[LG-97] Low-rank tensor structure of precipitation and its application to satellite-reference merging
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11000
作者: Ryan Solgi,Rohan Shankar,Hugo A. Loaiciga
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
*备注:
Abstract:The intermittent and variable nature of precipitation makes its accurate estimation over extended domains difficult, yet its spatiotemporal structure suggests that a low-rank representation may be possible. This work represents daily precipitation over the contiguous United States (CONUS) as spatiotemporal tensors and applies CANDECOMP/PARAFAC factorization, showing that preserving the native spatial and temporal modes yields more accurate reconstruction than factorizing independent daily fields or unfolded space–time matrices. Building on this finding, this work presents TMerge, a tensor-based framework that integrates satellite precipitation with sparse reference observations through shared low-rank spatial and temporal factors. TMerge was applied to correct the IMERG Final Run product with climate prediction center reference observations over CONUS. During 2019-2022, TMerge increased correlation from 0.53 to 0.85 and reduced root-mean-square error and mean absolute error by 48.2% and 29.3%, respectively. TMerge consistently outperformed linear bias correction, quantile mapping, and neural networks across seasons, precipitation-intensity regimes, and regions. Improvements were spatially coherent and largest in coastal regions where IMERG errors were greatest. These results demonstrate that low-rank tensor structure parsimoniously approximates the dominant spatiotemporal variability of precipitation and provides a practical mechanism for improving satellite estimates under limited reference observations over extended domains.
[LG-98] F3NO: Frequency-Decomposed Finite-Time Flow-map Neural Operators with Cross-Scale Conditioning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10998
作者: Fan Wu,Cheng Jing,Kookjin Lee
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Neural operators enable fast PDE forecasting, but repeated predictions accumulate errors and fine-scale structures remain difficult to resolve. We introduce a frequency-decomposed finite-time flow-map neural operator (F ^3 NO) that leverages updated low-frequency features to guide nonlinear refinement of high-frequency information. Within each layer, this cross-scale conditioning connects global spectral processing with local detail refinement. The model directly predicts states at specified future times and adjusts the contributions of the two branches according to the prediction interval. For longer trajectories, it combines parallel predictions within short temporal segments with recursive propagation between segments. Experiments on five PDE benchmarks demonstrate improved forecasting accuracy over autoregressive and direct-prediction baselines. Ablations show that frequency-decomposed refinement can improve accuracy with fewer parameters, while the benefits of segmentation depend on spatial resolution and dynamical regime.
[LG-99] Invariant-Measure Reason ers: Stable Representations for Latent Reasoning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10996
作者: Yuto Inui,Takuya Konishi,Yoshinobu Kawahara
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Latent reasoning models repeatedly update a latent state using the same recurrent block. As the recurrent depth increases, the sequence of latent states may converge to a compact subset of the state space without necessarily converging to a fixed point. Existing models typically predict by applying a prediction head to a single latent state. However, the latent state can continue to change even after many updates, potentially making predictions unstable across recurrent depths. To address this instability, we introduce invariant-measure reasoners (ImR), a framework that uses an invariant measure as a stable representation. This measure describes the long-run distribution of latent states on the compact subset and is invariant under updates by the recurrent block. ImR predicts from the expectation of the prediction head’s output under this measure. We use ImR in two ways: fine-tuning only the prediction head of existing models and training models from scratch. Both approaches reduce prediction instability and improve accuracy in many settings on maze and Sudoku tasks. In some settings, models trained with ImR exhibit non-fixed-point behavior more frequently than existing models yet achieve high accuracy even with such behavior, unlike existing models. These results suggest that ImR can leverage otherwise destabilizing dynamics for latent reasoning.
[LG-100] ransferability of Learned States in Neural PDE Solvers ICLR2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10972
作者: Shunye Wang,Haochen Wen,Shuo Li Liu,Xuanyi Wang,Lihao Liu,Zhongying Deng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2027
Abstract:Assessing useful reuse in neural PDE solvers is challenging: final accuracy can reflect source learning and target-time computation. Our reuse contract separates solution accuracy, learning contribution, and numerical utility through paired state comparisons, matched target information and budgets, and cost accounting. A literature audit extracts 18 version-specific protocol records from 12 papers, documenting retained states, target-time resources, and reported controls. For a fixed linear system and residual tolerance, we construct two initial guesses with identical solution-error, energy-error, and residual norms, reaching the same solution with different conjugate-gradient (CG) iteration counts. Across 240 source-training trajectories, two linear PDE families, Fourier neural operators and convolutional networks, a fixed predictor’s benefit reverses across correction algorithms. Among pairs with both relative prediction errors less than or equal to 5 percent on 64 in-distribution tasks (63 by 63 interior grids), reductions in all three norms accompany more CG iterations, at mean taskwise rates of 23.5 percent and 23.9 percent in two libraries. Work-based selection saves 2.50-3.33 CG iterations on held-out in-distribution tasks; matched adaptation demonstrates finite-budget pretraining value. Independent batches confirm a 0.73 percent complete online saving for one physics-trained Fourier neural operator against zero-initialized Poisson-preconditioned CG. Reuse requires matched state comparisons and downstream computational evidence.
[LG-101] ASPIRE: Saddle-Point Discovery through Set Prediction and Physical Refinement
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10969
作者: Yucheng Zhao,Quanyou Zhang,Shaoxiang Qin,Haixuan Xu,Xiongye Xiao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Predicting thermally activated diffusion and defect evolution with event-driven models requires identifying atomic rearrangement mechanisms and their activation barriers. Discovering the associated saddle points is a major computational bottleneck: multiple rearrangements may originate from one metastable state, while costly local searches can fail or repeatedly converge to the same saddle. To address this challenge, we introduce ASPIRE (Atomistic Saddle-Point Inference with Refinement for Events), a framework that predicts a set of saddle candidates from a single initial atomic environment and refines them through Dimer searches on the original interatomic potential. The framework’s equivariant set predictor, Ev-Quiformer, integrates (i) geometry-conditioned scalar-vector event slots for generating multiple saddle-point proposals and (ii) a decoder that maps each slot to a full atomic displacement field by combining atom, slot, and anchor-relative vectors with invariant coefficients. We also contribute two datasets: (i) BCCFE4VACAV-4000, comprising 4,000 four-vacancy body-centered cubic iron configurations and 65,450 reference events grouped by initial state for set supervision and post-refinement evaluation; and (ii) BCCFE-1TO4VAC, comprising 5,372 configurations with one to four vacancies each. Theoretically, we establish conditions for proposal equivariance. Experimentally, ASPIRE achieves 77.20% reference-event coverage on this benchmark, compared with 75.73% for a conventional Dimer baseline, while requiring approximately half as many Dimer force evaluations. In a timing evaluation on 50 configurations, ASPIRE reduces wall time per configuration from 478.8 s to 176.3 s under the stated hardware settings.
[LG-102] Spectrally Targeted Muon
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10965
作者: Vishrut Goyal,Rohan Ramkumar
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:The Muon optimizer orthogonalizes each update matrix, setting all of its singular values to one, and has proven highly effective for training large language models. It remains unclear, however, whether this success comes from amplifying small singular directions that gradient descent neglects or from suppressing large, degenerate directions that disrupt training. We introduce Spectrally Targeted Muon, which orthogonalizes only the singular values above or below a threshold \tau , so that varying \tau interpolates between normalized SGD and Muon. It isolates the relevant singular subspaces with projections computed by Newton-Schulz iteration on a shifted Gram matrix, so no SVD is needed. We evaluate these variants on the CIFAR-10 and NanoGPT speedruns, tracking the effective rank of gradient, update, and weight matrices and a new metric, the alignment of updates with the tangent space of the weight matrix’s isospectral manifold. We find three things. First, the small singular values of the momentum are not noise. Orthogonalizing everything except the few largest singular values of each matrix nearly matches Muon while touching only a small fraction of the momentum, whereas orthogonalizing only the top falls well short even though it holds almost all of it. On language models every momentum singular value is far below one, so targeted orthogonalization can only amplify, and Muon wins by making directions that are too small to train on at their raw scale trainable. Second, shrinking the largest singular values is what keeps the parameter spectrum flat; this is cheap, and it is not what drives the loss. Third, AdamW differs from Muon mainly in how slowly it builds structure, which explains its slower start and why warmup helps AdamW but only hurts Muon.
[LG-103] SPD-MetaFormer is what you need for small-data brain decoding
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10952
作者: Zhida Wang,Wei Lyu,Guo Yu,Sui Tang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Brain signal decoding is challenging because neural recordings are noisy and vary across individuals, while labeled data are often limited. Recent attention-based models on the symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold have nevertheless achieved strong performance using covariance and connectivity representations, yet the contribution of learned token weighting remains unclear. We examine two representative architectures, MAtt (based on log-Euclidean geometry) and GBWAtt (based on generalized Bures–Wasserstein geometry), and find that their learned attention weights remain close to uniform after training. We relate this behavior to bounded similarity parameterizations that, under the original softmax scaling, limit attention-weight contrast. Moreover, replacing learned weights with uniform weights, throughout training and evaluation, has little effect on mean predictive performance while preserving each model’s original aggregation geometry. Motivated by these findings, we introduce SPD-MetaFormer, an attention-free architecture built on uniformly weighted Fréchet aggregation under log-Euclidean geometry. Its backbone uses a geodesic residual to update a summary token and a shared spectral feedforward map to transform all tokens, followed by a learned weighted readout. Token states remain SPD-valued until tangent-space classification. Across three EEG benchmarks, SPD-MetaFormer achieves competitive results relative to published Euclidean and manifold baselines. Separate matched reproductions test learned versus uniform weighting within MAtt and GBWAtt. These results suggest that, in the short-sequence and limited-data regimes studied, carefully designed SPD architectures can provide a simpler and effective alternative to adaptive manifold attention.
[LG-104] RH-Detect: A Unified Benchmark for Reward Hacking Detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10947
作者: Junwei Quan,Evgenii Opryshko,Rohan Subramani,Igor Gilitschenski
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 16 pages, 3 figures, 16 tables
Abstract:Reward hacking, where a model exploits an evaluation signal without completing the intended task, threatens the reliability of deployed language model systems. Existing datasets use different labels, response formats, and metadata conventions, making detector results difficult to compare. We present RH-Detect, a benchmark that combines reward-hacking-relevant subsets from eleven public datasets, comprising 92,761 rows and six behavior categories, into a common schema. On 5,021 open-ended evaluation units, each comprising a task prompt and a free-form model continuation, including multi-turn tool-use trajectories, we evaluate six off-the-shelf language models from five families as reward hacking detectors without additional training. The best model achieves a pooled AUROC of 0.962, with accuracy above 93%. For the four strongest models, however, accuracy on the two multi-turn tool-use datasets, MALT and TRACE, is 10.7-15.9 percentage points lower than on the other sources at a common decision threshold, highlighting a key gap for deployment-time monitoring. We find that different input formats have different effects across models. Removing thinking raises Qwen3.5-4B AUROC from 0.779 to 0.849, but lowers Qwen Flash from 0.977 to 0.950. We also evaluate the benchmark as a training dataset for detectors. Holding out each source in turn, single-token SFT improves average AUROC on five of six held-out sources. A GRPO follow-up on that failure case yields a slight improvement in detection performance. Our results show that a single pooled score can conceal variation across data sources, detector inputs, and training procedures.
[LG-105] Higher-Order Morphology Priors for Quadruped Reinforcement Learning Under Actuator Degradation IROS
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10934
作者: Derek You,Zafir Shamsi,Keqin Wang,Christine Allen-Blanchette
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted to IROS Workshop BLPC 2026
Abstract:Actuator degradation turns quadruped locomotion into a coordination problem requiring joints to compensate for lost actuation. Prior work suggests that morphology-aware graph policies improve learning and generalization under body perturbations. We ask whether these benefits can be strengthened by explicitly modeling higher-order mechanical structure. We represent the Unitree Go1 as a cell complex with limb- and body-level rank-2 cells and apply Hodge-based message passing. Under degradation training, the node-edge-face Hodge actor achieves the highest return on unseen actuator degradations, with higher survival and lower velocity-tracking error. These results support higher-order morphology as a useful inductive bias for whole-body compensation under actuator degradation.
[LG-106] World-Model Policy Arbiter for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10932
作者: Junwei Quan,Evgenii Opryshko,Nicholas Rhinehart,Igor Gilitschenski
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 22 pages, 3 figures, 14 tables. Project page: this https URL Code: this https URL
Abstract:Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) has produced a diverse set of goal-reaching algorithms, yet no single algorithm performs best across environments, goals, and even different phases of the same task. Rather than deploying only the best-performing policy, we ask whether a set of frozen goal-conditioned policies can be used collectively as a portfolio, deciding at every state which policy should act. Choosing a policy at each state is not straightforward. The policies’ own value functions cannot be compared directly: they may use different scales, and some policies have no value function. We need to judge each policy by the states it is likely to reach, even though we can execute only one policy at a time. We also need to avoid switching so often that control becomes unstable. To address these challenges, we introduce World-Model Policy Arbiter (WMPA), a test-time framework that, given a set of frozen policies as input, rolls out each frozen policy in a learned state-space world model, evaluates the imagined futures with a shared goal-conditioned value function, and executes the highest-scoring policy for a short commitment interval before the next round of arbitration (policy selection). WMPA assumes access to a bank of frozen goal-conditioned policies and requires neither policy retraining nor privileged task-specific knowledge. Under the official OGBench evaluation protocol on 18 state-based datasets spanning maze navigation as well as cube, scene, and puzzle manipulation, WMPA improves the macro-average success rate from the 44% achieved by the best policy selected per dataset to 58%, with statistically significant gains on 12 datasets. These gains include +33 percentage points on cube-double-play and +36 percentage points on scene-play.
[LG-107] Coefficient Calibration as Selection Pressure in Symbolic Regression
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10931
作者: Mattia Billa,Veronica Guidetti,Federica Mandreoli
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 18 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables
Abstract:In memetic symbolic regression, candidate structures are compared after coefficient calibration, so the calibration protocol itself contributes to evolutionary selection. Standard centralized calibration evaluates each structure at its pooled-sample optimum, ignoring how stable this calibration is under covariate shifts, and can thus favor structures whose fit relies on sample-specific coefficients. We propose Dirichlet-Sinkhorn Constant Averaging (DSCA), a calibration strategy that partitions the optimization data into equally sized subsets with different covariate distributions, calibrates each candidate independently on every partition, and evaluates it at the mean of the resulting parameters. We show that the excess loss of DSCA relative to centralized calibration vanishes at the population level for correctly specified, identifiable expressions, whereas under misspecification it persists when partition-specific calibrations do not aggregate to the pooled optimum. On synthetic benchmarks and ten real-world datasets, DSCA improves functional recovery and the accuracy-complexity trade-off over centralized Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno and Levenberg-Marquardt calibration, under selection by negative log-likelihood and by the Akaike and Bayesian information criteria. Mechanism analyses associate the DSCA excess loss with the generalization gap and show that the effect is not reproduced by repeated centralized fitting. These results indicate that controlled heterogeneous calibration provides a complementary source of selection pressure in symbolic-regression search. Comments: 18 pages, 8 figures, 7 tables Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10931 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.10931v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10931 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-108] Adaptive Multi-Discriminator WGAN Framework for Resource-Constrained Internet of Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10926
作者: Farhoud Jafari Kaleibar,Amr M. Zaki,Marin Litoiu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
*备注: 15 pages
Abstract:Managing machine learning workloads as a network service introduces a resource-orchestration problem distinct from conventional model training; which nodes should be allocated to a task, how communication and computation budgets should be divided among them, and how service quality should be sustained as connectivity and node availability change with mobility. Deploying Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environments is a demanding instance of this problem; resource constraints, dynamic network topologies, and competing optimization objectives mean that traditional GAN architectures cannot simultaneously achieve high accuracy, efficient resource use, low delay, and low communication overhead. This paper introduces an adaptive multi-discriminator Wasserstein GAN (MD-WGAN) framework that integrates reinforcement learning with game-theoretic coordination to address these challenges jointly. In our framework, roadside units host generators paired with Deep Q-Network (DQN) agents that select discriminator subsets and manage distributed training across mobile vehicular nodes, while a game-theoretic coordination step allocates training epochs between generators and discriminators. A unified optimization objective ties adversarial learning quality to resource efficiency, communication overhead, and latency under vehicular constraints, allowing the framework to continuously adapt its training behavior as network conditions change. Evaluation on real-world NGSIM trajectory data shows that the framework attains prediction accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art GAN baselines - the lowest RMSE (1.029) and MAE (0.894) among all evaluated methods - while markedly improving resource efficiency: average CPU utilization is reduced by roughly 28% and mean memory usage by roughly 6%, at competitive communication overhead and latency.
[LG-109] Implementation Guidelines for Data Quality Metrics EDBT2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10919
作者: Philipp Jung,Katinka Becker,Felix Biessmann,Valerie Restat,Martin Seyferth,Daniel Schwabe,Lisa Ehrlinger
类目: Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to EDBT 2027
Abstract:Despite decades of data quality (DQ) research, a gap remains between DQ dimensions, such as accuracy or completeness, which the literature defines in textual form, and DQ tools, which typically implement low-level checks that are not aligned with these dimensions. ISO/IEC 25024 and ISO/IEC 5259 attempt to bridge this gap by defining DQ metrics for each dimension. However, these DQ metrics are hardly used, because the standards leave open how to implement them: for example, the metric for syntactic accuracy counts syntactically accurate values, but does not state how to decide that a value is syntactically accurate. This simply moves the problem to another level without solving it. As a result, DQ assessment currently cannot build on the standards. In this paper, we make the ISO DQ metrics executable. We classify all data-level metrics of both standards into (i) generalizable metrics that need no input beyond the data, (ii) parameterized metrics whose parameters can be learned from clean reference data or set by an expert, and (iii) non-generalizable metrics that need qualitative judgment and cannot be automated. For the metrics that can be automated, i.e., categories (i) and (ii), we propose implementation guidelines that resolve what the standards leave open. We realize the guidelines in dqmeasure, an open-source library of 20 metrics that learns these parameters from reference data instead of relying on manually defined rules. Our experiments on real-world and synthetic datasets show that the metric scores decrease monotonically with an increasing number of injected errors, decline together with downstream ML performance, and scale linearly with the number of rows, which enables automated DQ monitoring based on the standards. Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Submitted to EDBT 2027 Subjects: Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10919 [cs.DB] (or arXiv:2610.10919v1 [cs.DB] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10919 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-110] Power Side-Channel Membership Inference Attack on Embedded Machine Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10909
作者: Sahan Sanjaya,Prabhat Mishra
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Membership inference attacks (MIAs) threaten the privacy of machine learning (ML) training data by determining whether a sample was used to train a target model. Existing MIAs rely on model outputs, ranging from prediction probabilities to predicted labels, an assumption that can be restrictive for on-device ML systems with limited or inaccessible outputs. However, suppressing model outputs does not eliminate the data-dependent computations that produce them, which may remain observable through physical side channels. We present PSCMIA, a power side-channel membership inference attack against embedded ML models that can infer membership directly from power traces without requiring prediction probabilities or even the predicted labels. We evaluate PSCMIA across multiple datasets (MNIST, FMNIST, CIFAR10, CINIC10), fully connected (FC) and convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, and two embedded platforms (STM32F3, XMEGA). PSCMIA achieves ROC-AUC values of up to 0.907 on FC models. For CNN models, the ROC-AUC gap between PSCMIA and probability vector-based shadow MIA ranges from 0.006 to 0.116. Across the FC and CNN evaluations, PSCMIA outperforms label-only MIA in 11 of 16 model-dataset-hardware configurations, demonstrating that physical execution can expose membership information even when conventional model outputs are unavailable through unintended power side-channel leakage.
[LG-111] How Hackable Is Your Speech Quality Metric? A Corrected Protocol a Benchmark and What Patching Buys
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10899
作者: Ali Alavi,Donald S. Williamson
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Speech quality predictors are increasingly used as rewards, yet no agreed measure of their hackability exists. The usual measurement has two flaws. First, the perturbation reaches the predictor through a processing chain – here a neural codec – that shifts the score on its own, which scoring against the raw input charges to the attack. Referencing the unperturbed round trip instead changes measured hackability by up to a factor of four (0.31 to 0.08 for one defence). Second, one trained attacker is a sample, not a measurement: five attackers differing only in random seed reach success rates from 0.00 to 0.38 against one fixed predictor, so a defence claim needs the worst case over several. Under this protocol, four published predictors differ widely: NISQA is hacked on 90% of utterances, SSL-MOS on 21%, DNSMOS on 14% and UTMOS on 6%. We then audit a closed attack-detect-patch loop. It hardens the predictor only in its own attack space, by less than the spread between attackers; a random-perturbation baseline matches it; and it costs up to 0.30 system SRCC out of domain. Enhancers post-trained against patched predictors hack them far less (PESQ -0.03 versus -0.23). Code, preregistration and run outputs are released.
[LG-112] Gen-PINNs: Generative Adversarial Physics Informed Neural Networks for solving partial differential equations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10897
作者: Muhammad M. Akmal,Kamy Sepehrnoori,Michael J. Pyrcz
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
*备注:
Abstract:Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a widely used data-free method for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using machine learning. With recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), adversarial learning has shown strong capabilities for modeling complex data-driven problems; however, the use of GANs in deterministic physics-informed PDE solutions remains limited. In this work, we first identify limitations of standard PINNs for solving PDEs, including spectral bias, loss imbalance, and optimizer stagnation. We then propose Generative Adversarial Physics-Informed Neural Networks (Gen-PINNs), a unified deterministic residual-adversarial framework designed to improve data-free solutions of PDEs with sharp or shock-front behavior. The generator learns the underlying PDE solution using dynamically weighted physics-informed loss components, while separate discriminators evaluate complementary PDE residual features against ideal zero-residual states. The framework further develops and adapts several methodological components, including a Fourier representation for resolving high-frequency spatial content, an orthonormal spectral diagnostic for quantifying frequency-dependent solution errors, and a modified gradient-based dynamic weighting system for physics, initial-condition, boundary-condition, and adversarial loss objectives. Gen-PINNs is tested against standard PINNs on nonlinear and higher-order PDEs, including the Burgers, Allen-Cahn, and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations. The results demonstrate substantial improvements in accuracy and convergence across sharp-front, stiff, and higher-order PDE solutions, highlighting the potential of deterministic residual-adversarial learning as an effective approach for solving challenging nonlinear PDEs.
[LG-113] Barron Optimal Transport I: Generative Modeling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10875
作者: Evan Dogariu,Joan Bruna
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
*备注:
Abstract:Motivated by recent applications in generative modeling and sampling, we introduce a framework for optimal measure transport where cost captures the notion of neural network complexity. In transport-based generative models, samples from a reference distribution (e.g. Gaussian) are mapped to samples of a target distribution along ordinary or stochastic differential equations. These are implemented as deep residual networks when discretized in time, where each hidden layer approximates the associated instantaneous velocity. Thus, given a pair of target and reference measures, a natural question is to search for the most efficient neural representation that implements this transport. Our starting point is the kinetic formulation of OT, due to Benamou and Brenier. We replace the average kinetic L^2 energy by the \emphBarron energy \citebach2017breaking, ma2022barron, a natural norm which measures the complexity of representing a given vector field with a neural hidden layer, and which captures the adaptive properties of feature learning. This defines a metric on the space of probability measures, complementing existing Wasserstein and Stein geometries. In this work we examine the properties of this metric in the context of generative modeling. As a first application, we quantify the suboptimality of diffusion generative modeling in the Barron geometry by establishing super-polynomial score approximation lower bounds for data generated by neural network pushforwards of the Gaussian. We then investigate the benefit of adaptivity as a way to study alternative generative models. In a companion paper \citecompanionpaper we leverage the Barron transport geometry for sampling applications, extending the scope of Stein variational gradient methods via feature adaptation. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) Cite as: arXiv:2610.10875 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2610.10875v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10875 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-114] Shape irregularity of Life-Like Network Automaton rules as an indicator of classification performance
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10867
作者: Lucas C. S. Oliveira,Michiel Rollier,Jan Baetens,Odemir M. Bruno
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
*备注:
Abstract:Complex Network (CN) classification requires high-level structural characterizations that are both scale-invariant and computationally efficient. Methods based on Life-Like Network Automata (LLNA) offer an interesting way to extract network descriptors by leveraging emergent temporal patterns without requiring provided features, but their efficacy is bottlenecked by a high-cost combinatorial optimization problem: the selection of the automaton transition rule. While current literature relies on exhaustive searches that are unfeasible for large-scale applications, this work reveals that the rule space is fundamentally structured by a property we term ``jaggedness’', that quantifies the resemblance of a LLNA transition function with a sawtooth shape. We demonstrate that this metric acts as a theoretical proxy for chaoticity and sensitivity – properties essential for generating discriminative dynamic behaviors among network categories. Moreover, we introduce a heuristic search strategy that uses jaggedness to guide the rule selection. Experimental results show that our approach achieves classification accuracies within 5% of the global optimum while reducing computational overhead by 90% compared to exhaustive approach. Our findings provide a novel, efficient, framework for optimizing automata-based methods for pattern recognition.
[LG-115] A mesh-based neural energy method for the simulation of heterogeneous composites
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10862
作者: Pius J. M. Wichmann,Stefan Hildebrand,Sandra Klinge
类目: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Modeling heterogeneous materials remains a challenge for physics-informed neural networks such as the deep energy method (DEM). The DEM and its variants, here collectively referred to as the neural energy method (NEM), offer a differentiable variational framework. However, their conventional collocation-based implementation (C-NEM) often suffers from physically inadmissible displacement oscillations, integration errors, and high computational costs from automatic differentiation. This work introduces the mesh-based neural energy method (M-NEM), extending the NEM through a mesh-based discretization of the displacement field. By interpolating nodal displacements via shape functions, the M-NEM imposes a kinematic constraint that suppresses oscillations. Furthermore, the method replaces automatic differentiation with algebraic shape function derivatives for strain computation and employs high-order Gaussian quadrature for accurate energy integration. On a directly comparable benchmark problem, the M-NEM reduces stress errors by up to three orders of magnitude relative to the C-NEM while being one to two orders of magnitude faster. On two further benchmarks involving extreme stiffness contrasts, only the M-NEM converges. A comparative study of neural architectures reveals that radial basis function neural networks (RBFNNs) yield optimal performance within the M-NEM, resolving sharp gradients at material interfaces with higher accuracy than multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) with random Fourier feature (RFF) mapping and faster convergence than Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs).
[LG-116] KDFP: A first-principles approach to knowledge distillation in large language models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10854
作者: Ryan Swift,Konstantinos Psounis
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 30 pages, 6 figures, submitted to COLM 2026
Abstract:Knowledge distillation is an established technique for improving the capabilities of small, efficient student models by training them with the representations of larger, more capable teacher models. Much of the recent work in the distillation of large language models (LLMs) has focused on distilling abilities learned during post-training, such as instruction following, chain-of-thought reasoning, and tool usage. This has left a large research gap in general knowledge distillation for LLMs, which is essential for developing efficient and private systems suitable for deployment on edge devices. We take a first-principles approach, evaluating previous lessons from prior works and conducting new explorations to develop a distillation methodology suitable for modern LLMs. We present KDFP, a novel methodology for white-box general knowledge distillation in LLMs. We demonstrate that KDFP outperforms existing methods by 1.6% - 4.9% across 9 benchmarks while increasing training efficiency by up to 99.1% through ephemeral parameter reduction.
[LG-117] Similar Predictive Fit but Different Latent Dynamics: Characterizing Learned Dynamical Structure in Personalized Models of Brain Disorders NEURIPS2026 ALT
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10850
作者: Rita Huan-Ting Peng,Nhat Bui
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
*备注: Accepted at the World Models for High-Stakes Health (WMHS) Workshop at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:As AI models move toward clinical decision-making and personalized treatment, understanding \emphwhat a model learns is important beyond predictive accuracy alone. We investigate whether personalized latent dynamics reveal clinically associated differences even when predictive fit is similar. A lightweight CNN–Transformer EEG foundation model pretrained on the Temple University EEG Corpus (TUEG) extracts segment-level representations. Using the Temple University Epilepsy Corpus (TUEP), representations are mapped to a shared latent-state space, and sparse multinomial logistic transition distributions (mLTD) are fit independently to each subject to obtain personalized transition-dependency graphs W_n . Analyses include n=198 subjects (99 epilepsy / 99 non-epilepsy). At k=4 , epilepsy subjects exhibit substantially denser learned dependency structure ( p=1.1\times10^-7 ), with the same pattern at k=6 (19.90 vs. 13.46; p=5.2\times10^-5 ). Graph-derived features provide moderate group discrimination under 5-fold subject-wise cross-validation (AUROC 0.68 at k=4 ; 0.65 at k=6 ). In contrast, held-out log-likelihood is nearly identical between groups at k=4 ( -0.992 vs. -0.991 ; p=0.95 ), with similarly matched next-state prediction (AUROC 0.855 vs. 0.861; p=0.54 ). Thus, similar predictive fit does not imply similar learned dynamics: groups can be comparably predictable while differing substantially in the internal dynamical structure learned by personalized models. This distinction motivates evaluating learned structure alongside predictive performance in personalized clinical models.
[LG-118] Amortized Off-Policy Evaluation for LLM s
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10848
作者: Younwoo Choi,Leo Feng,Vincent Liu,Haanvid Lee
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Accurate evaluation is central to selecting which LLM to deploy, yet testing a candidate on live traffic exposes real users to an unvetted model. Teams therefore evaluate candidates offline, on data produced by already-deployed models. This is off-policy evaluation (OPE), and it faces two distribution shifts: as a model is updated in post-training, its responses diverge from the logged ones (policy shift), and the reward definition under which it is judged changes with business requirements (reward shift). Classical OPE methods are ill-suited to this continual-deployment setting because they are defined per task and require fitting from scratch on every new logged dataset or reward definition. To address this, we propose PFN-OPE, a prior-data fitted network that amortizes OPE across a distribution of contextual-bandit tasks. We pretrain it once on tasks constructed from a pool of LLM responses scored by several reward functions, in which both shifts occur. At test-time it maps a logged dataset and one sampled target response per prompt to a value estimate in a single forward pass, with no per-task fitting. On HelpSteer2 and UltraFeedback with Qwen, Llama, and Gemma policies, PFN-OPE achieves 2.0 to 9.3 times lower error than the best baselines across all tested configurations in the reward-shifted settings.
[LG-119] MotherTree: Meta-learning on synthetic data improves decision tree training
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10832
作者: Ziyuan Wang,Fredrik D. Johansson
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Conventional decision tree algorithms produce effective, transparent models that can be audited, communicated, and deployed independently of the training data, but require learning every new task from scratch. In contrast, tabular foundation models demonstrate that meta-learning from a synthetic prior distribution enables strong in-context prediction for previously unseen tasks, especially in small-sample regimes. However, this approach does not produce a standalone model that can be inspected in isolation. We introduce MotherTree, a tabular transformer that meta-learns decision tree induction: given a training set for a new task, it outputs a hard, axis-aligned decision tree, equivalent in form to classically trained trees, in a single forward pass. MotherTree is pre-trained on a synthetic prior using stochastic gradient descent without requiring reference trees for supervision. On established benchmarks with controlled sample size, the approach is competitive with size-matched trees from common algorithms: recursive partitioning, gradient-based tree learning, globally optimal trees, and distillation from tabular foundation models. Notably, MotherTree consistently improves over from-scratch gradient-based learning and acts as a strong initializer: task-specific tuning of the generated tree outperforms the corresponding from-scratch learner on all benchmarks and sample sizes. These results show that meta-learning can provide effective inductive biases for learning stand-alone, small decision tree classifiers.
[LG-120] Diagnosing and Recovering from Observation-Space Shift at Long-Horizon Skill Seams ICRA2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10810
作者: Pranav Wagh,Yu Fang,Yue Yang,Mingyu Ding
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 8 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to ICRA 2027
Abstract:Long-horizon robotic manipulation is often built by chaining independently trained skills. Although each skill can be reliable in isolation, performance degrades sharply when skills are chained: each downstream skill must start from the state its predecessor leaves behind rather than from its training distribution. We study this failure mode, Observation-Space Shift (OSS), and ask what causes these skill-seam failures. Using privileged simulator resets, we find that the dominant shift comes from displaced scene state (e.g., an open drawer or secondary objects left behind by earlier skills), not from the robot’s joint configuration or the object the downstream skill manipulates. To test this diagnosis, we build a fully learned detect-restore-resume system: a task-progress monitor detects the stall, a learned policy restores the displaced scene components, and seam-robust fine-tuning lets the skill resume. It recovers the seam where every tested alternative fails, which we treat as evidence for the diagnosis rather than as a general-purpose method. On the BOSS-44 benchmark, the system improves full-chain success from 7.6% to 26.5%, a 3.5x improvement over the base policy and 51% of a privileged restoration oracle, whereas best-of-K resampling, a Diffusion Policy, and world-model baselines fail to recover from the evaluated seam states. On a real Franka arm running a fine-tuned \pi_0.5 policy, the same monitor is limited by exterior-camera observability, yet closing the loop still recovers some otherwise-terminal failures, motivating wrist and gripper sensing. These results suggest that some long-horizon composition failures are better addressed by restoring the scene before resuming the policy than by retrying from an off-support state.
[LG-121] Evaluating Rubric Generation with Interventional Transfer
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10809
作者: Erik Skalnes,Layne C. Price,Raviteja Anantha,Michael Oberst
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 29 pages, 6 figures. Code and cached model outputs: this https URL
Abstract:Instance-specific rubrics are common in AI benchmarks where reliable evaluation requires specific expert knowledge. This approach is difficult to scale, prompting research into the generation of rubrics with large language models (LLMs). However, even when expert rubrics are available as references, it is unclear how to productively evaluate the quality of generated rubrics at scale. In this paper, we introduce a method for the evaluation of rubric generation, which we call Interventional Transfer (IT), based on the idea that two rubrics are similar if they move together when a response is perturbed to pass/fail one of them. In contrast to existing approaches for evaluation of rubric generation, we argue that different forms of interventional transfer can be used to evaluate the utility of generated rubrics for different tasks. For instance, we apply this approach in a case study on HealthBench, where we demonstrate an asymmetry in rubrics generated by Qwen3.8-27B, Deepseek-V4-Flash, and Opus-5, used to evaluate responses from GPT-5.6-Terra. Perturbations that degrade responses according to the generated/expert rubric transfer into lower scores on the corresponding expert/generated rubric, but perturbations that improve on one rubric do not reliably transfer into higher scores on the other. We argue that this finding has implications for the usage of LLM-generated rubrics for performance monitoring and hill-climbing. We contrast our approach with existing approaches for rubric evaluation, which do not surface the same asymmetry that we observe.
[LG-122] Controlled Acquisition and Abstention in Three-Channel Score Conflicts
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10808
作者: Mengzhe Geng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
*备注:
Abstract:When audio, video, and text disagree, accuracy alone does not show whether to acquire another source or abstain. We study these choices in a controlled three-score benchmark: a policy observes two signed scores, may request the third at a cost, and can abstain. The primary reward is mechanism-specific: abstention is correct only for one designated ambiguity mechanism and is penalized under mixed corruption. Matched controls show that a threshold policy matches always-request decisions with fewer requests; its advantage over always-answer fusion depends on the reward assigned to that ambiguity. On a partially held-out synthetic split, the threshold policy reaches 0.789 +/- 0.006 targeted decision accuracy and 0.481 +/- 0.014 utility across 83 seeds. A three-score majority reference reaches 0.626 +/- 0.008 and 0.252 +/- 0.016, but uses more information. In a matched-budget test, a train-only value selector improves utility over no-query and matched-random policies at 10% and 25% budgets, while pair uncertainty has higher utility at every budget. At 50% and 63.7% budgets, the selector lowers utility despite slightly higher non-ambiguous accuracy. If all abstentions are scored incorrect, majority outranks the threshold policy in utility. At a central temporal setting, full-trace controls match the neural models while position perturbations separate them. On held-out-actor emotion clips, eight-frame fusion has opposite-signed accuracy differences for two encoder pairs, with both actor intervals containing zero; matched-request routing gains are small and uncertain. These results separate full-modality accuracy from pre-request selection value and show that selection value depends on budget and the observed-pair ranking.
[LG-123] Symbolic Density Estimators for Unnormalized Distributions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10807
作者: Vikas Kanaujia,Riyansha Singh,Shashank Sharma,Vipul Arora
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
*备注: 32 pages, 3 figures
Abstract:Estimating the symbolic or analytical form of probability density functions (PDFs) from observed samples is a fundamental challenge in statistical and computational modelling. This process is critical for deriving interpretable and generalizable relationships characterizing the underlying phenomenon. Traditionally, this estimation depends strongly on domain expertise and prior field-specific knowledge, with experts selecting appropriate functional forms or parametric families based on empirical evidence and theoretical understanding. The coefficients of these forms are then typically determined through parameter estimation. In this paper, we develop a framework for estimating symbolic expressions of unnormalized distributions from observed samples using domain-specific prior knowledge, such as the range of interactions and a predefined set of primitive functions. We integrate deep generative models with symbolic regression (SR), incorporating inductive biases, such as factorizing large distributions, to keep the problem tractable. The deep generative models we examine include likelihood-based models, viz., flow models, and score-based models. Experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed framework for estimating density functions for multivariate toy distributions as well as lattices from computational physics, namely, XY model and \phi^4 theory. When applied to the renormalization problem in \phi^4 theory, the proposed framework estimates compact symbolic approximations of the hamiltonian function at different scales directly from samples, yielding expressions that may be challenging to derive using traditional perturbative or analytic approaches in nonperturbative settings.
[LG-124] How Many Repeated Pairwise Comparisons Are Needed for Ranking under Heterogeneity?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10795
作者: Shashaank Aiyer,Han Shao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Information Theory (cs.IT)
*备注: 53 pages, 4 figures
Abstract:We study ranking models by population-average utility from pairwise comparisons when preferences vary across users and tasks. Prior work shows that a single comparison per user can be insufficient to identify the alternative with the highest average utility, even with arbitrarily many users (Golz et al., 2025). We investigate how many repeated comparisons within each user-task context are necessary and sufficient for ranking recovery. Under a heterogeneous Bradley-Terry model with fixed inverse temperature, we start with a naive MLE-based algorithm that requires \Omega(1/\Delta^2) repeated comparisons per context to ensure ranking recovery. We then present two MLE-based variants and a randomized Russian Roulette-style algorithm that recover the ranking using O(\log(1/\Delta)) repeated comparisons per context, and we prove that this logarithmic dependence is optimal. Despite this worst-case requirement, our Russian Roulette algorithm uses only O(1) comparisons per context in expectation. Synthetic experiments and semi-synthetic experiments based on Arena data compare the four algorithms in settings with varying levels of preference heterogeneity and under varying context distributions.
[LG-125] NEMORA: Neural Equivariant Multipole Operators for Long-Range Atomistic Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10776
作者: Jay L. Kaplan,Samuel Varner,Rebecca Willett,Juan J. de Pablo
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
*备注: 59 pages, 5 figures, including supplementary material
Abstract:Equivariant graph neural networks have emerged as foundational architectures for machine-learned interatomic potentials, approaching quantum-chemical accuracy at a fraction of the computational cost. These models describe local atomic environments accurately, but finite spatial cutoffs truncate long-range information flow, and stacking message-passing layers can lead to over-smoothing and over-squashing. Existing long-range extensions either prescribe a fixed analytical propagation kernel, restrict long-range communication to scalars or degree-preserving channels, are only approximately equivariant, or incur super-linear computational cost. Combining learnable long-range equivariant transport with multiscale many-body expressivity and efficient scaling for larger systems remains a central challenge. We introduce Neural Equivariant Multipole Operators (NEMORA), a neural equivariant extension of the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) for learning long-range tensorial representations. NEMORA generalizes the FMM’s analytical multipole expansion and translation operators to learned equivariant counterparts on an adaptive spatial hierarchy. Its operators couple angular degrees and form many-body interactions across length scales, retaining the FMM’s hierarchical organization and analytical radial factors as physical inductive biases while learning data-dependent long-range couplings. NEMORA evaluates in linear time and memory complexity, allowing it to treat larger systems than other long-range methods reaching hundreds of thousands of atoms, and it augments both symmetry-constrained and unconstrained short-range backbones. On non-local benchmarks, it reduces force and energy errors relative to the short-range backbones by over an order of magnitude and up to three orders of magnitude, respectively, which is better than or competitive with existing long-range extensions in accuracy.
[LG-126] Strategic Investment Decision Making for Value Creation in Energy Transition: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10768
作者: Yasaman Cheraghi(1),Reidar B. Bratvold(1),Aojie Hong(2),Ressi B. Muhammad(1),Sergey Alyaev(3) ((1) Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway, (2) Independent Researcher, Stavanger, Norway, (3) NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway)
类目: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
*备注:
Abstract:The global challenge of climate change has driven significant steps to reduce CO2 emissions, guided by international agreements like the Paris Agreement of 2015. Acting too slowly could result in future losses and reputational damage, while moving too quickly could jeopardize shareholder value due to the marginal profitability or potential losses due to technology immaturity of many renewable projects. To navigate this complex transition, energy companies must adopt Sequential Decision Making (SDM) strategies to maximize value creation from decision flexibility under uncertainties. To support this, we developed a custom simulation environment to model the dynamic energy landscape up to 2050. Building on this, we designed a multi-criteria SDM framework that explores various decision strategies related to different portfolios for allocating funds across three sectors: oil gas, renewables, and CO2 reduction. It aims to maximize value during the transition while accounting for uncertainties in productions, energy prices, and costs. This framework has three objectives: maximizing profit, minimizing CO2 social costs, and enhancing competitive advantage in the renewable energy sector. This research evaluates the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to identify optimal investment policies within the defined SDM framework. The agent’s sequential decisions shape a virtual dynamic environment by influencing key variables such as oil and gas production, renewable energy output, CO2 emissions, and revenues. Through repeated interaction, the RL algorithm explores the state space and learns an optimal policy under uncertainty. We benchmark the RL strategy against a set of manually defined baseline policies and find it consistently outperforms them in adaptability and long-term value creation.
[LG-127] CPU-Auth: Device Fingerprinting for Authentication via DVFS Side-Channel
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10766
作者: Ryan Swift
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 13 pages
Abstract:Lack of effective authentication has resulted in numerous security and privacy breaches, including unauthorized access to protected information, identity theft, and fraud. One approach to mitigating such attacks is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), in which users must provide multiple pieces of information for authentication. Some secondary authentication factors include SMS text verification codes, biometrics, and tokens. Each contains at least one notable flaw: SMS is notoriously insecure; biometrics rely upon access to sensitive personal data; and tokens require dependence on third-party providers (e.g. OAuth providers). This work explores CPU-Auth, a novel authentication mechanism based on unique variations in the physical characteristics of the CPU of a computing device. By measuring the behavior of the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) governor remotely from within a browser, unique properties of the CPU can be leveraged to establish a hardware-based device fingerprint for use in CPU-Auth. The performance of CPU-Auth is evaluated on over 50,000 data traces using distance-based and deep learning methods. CPU-Auth is part of a larger research project, and the results provided in this report reflect only the contributions made to the project by members of this group.
[LG-128] Learning infinite context windows in recurrent architectures via spatial neural computing
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10690
作者: Aleix Salvador-Pomarol,Arthur N. Montanari,Earl K. Miller,Adilson E. Motter,Jorge Cortés
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
*备注: 12 pages, 4 figures
Abstract:Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) offer linear-time scaling with sequence length while requiring only constant memory, yet they struggle to capture long-range dependencies due to vanishing gradients and limited receptive fields. To address these limitations, we introduce a second-order recurrent model in which the standard neuron-to-neuron communication is replaced by a spatially evolving field governed by (discretized) partial differential equations. Drawing inspiration from the role of cortical waves in brain computation, this mechanism allows structured spatiotemporal patterns to serve as an implicit, high-capacity memory. We show that the resulting model is equivalent to a structured infinite-order RNN in which the current state depends explicitly on its entire history of past states, yielding an effectively unbounded receptive field with a fixed number of parameters. We further derive constructive conditions to ensure marginal stability, constraining the gradient spectrum on the unit circle and thereby eliminating vanishing and exploding gradients. Empirically, the proposed architecture outperforms other recurrent models on long-horizon benchmarks while using substantially fewer parameters, demonstrating that spatial dynamics can effectively bridge the gap between efficient inference and long-term memory.
[LG-129] Explaining the Saliency Map Sparsity of Adversarially-Trained Neural Networks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10666
作者: Yannick Lunk,Atell Yehor Krasnopolsky,Damien Garreau,Leon Bungert
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Understanding why deep neural networks make a given prediction is of great importance for their safe deployment. In computer vision, saliency maps, which highlight the image region most influential for a prediction, remain a widely-used form of explanation. An empirical observation is the apparent sparsity of gradient saliency maps of adversarially-trained neural networks. In this paper, we propose a theoretical explanation of this phenomenon for two-layer ReLU networks. We build on the established equivalence of adversarial training to the minimization of the empirical risk with weight-decay penalization and an added adversarial total variation term – valid for certain loss functions. As the number of data points and neurons grows and the regularization parameters are sent to zero at appropriate rates, we prove that minimizers converge to a Bayes classifier with minimal gradient and Barron norm. Sparsity appears since for adversarial training with \ell_\infty -attacks the gradient norm is anisotropic and favors axis-aligned / sparse gradients. We illustrate our theoretical findings experimentally by evaluating the gradient \ell_1 -norm and thresholded sparsity of naturally versus adversarially trained models.
[LG-130] BEANS-Next and ROOTS: Broadening Audio-Language Capabilities for Bioacoustics
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10663
作者: Christos Plachouras,David Robinson,Marius Miron,Gagan Narula,Paul Laisné,Anthony L. T. Fine,Benno Weck,Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon,Diane Kim,Laura Hay Mack,Maddie Cusimano,Sara Keen,Lukas Rauch,Benjamin Hoffman,Emmanuel Chemla,Emmanouil Benetos,Johan Pauwels,Milad Alizadeh,Matthieu Geist,Olivier Pietquin
类目: ound (cs.SD); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 36 pages, 7 figures. Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Bioacoustics and ethology encompass a wide range of audio understanding tasks, many of which stand to benefit from recent advances in large audio-language models. However, progress in the field has so far been assessed on a narrow set of tasks, primarily centered on label-centric biological category recognition, such as species and call-type classification. In this work, we introduce BEANS-Next, a benchmark grounded in a taxonomy of bioacoustics tasks spanning acoustic perception, biological category recognition, scene understanding, and in-context learning. Using BEANS-Next, we show that existing models exhibit limited performance beyond the task families emphasized by existing evaluations, constraining their usefulness for broader bioacoustic applications. To support progress on this broader task space, we also introduce ROOTS, a large-scale training resource built from expanded curated real-world data and previously underused behavioral and acoustic metadata, supplemented by audio-derived information and scalable synthetic generation where labeling is insufficient. We demonstrate that training on this dataset yields substantial progress across all task groups of BEANS-Next, moving audio-language models closer to their potential as general-purpose assistants for bioacoustics and ethology. To accelerate progress in the field, we open-source our benchmark, dataset, and data pipelines.
[LG-131] aching PPG How not Who: Fixed-Effects Distillation from ECG
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10662
作者: Zhongli Wu,Zhuangzhi Gao,Yuankai Wang,Gregory Y.H. Lip,Bilal H. Kirmani,Yalin Zheng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:ECG is widely used to teach PPG-only models, yet what it teaches is unexamined. Wearables are valued for tracking how a person’s cardiovascular state changes, but ECG-to-PPG distillation mostly learns who the person is. A per-recording mean, the trait, holds 40-59% of a frozen ECG teacher’s target, and pooled students memorise it without carrying it to new recordings. The raw alignment cosine misses this, since a constant predictor scores 0.793. Across 34 runs, the more identity a student memorises, the less state it learns. Fixed-effects distillation subtracts each recording’s mean from prediction and target, so the trait cancels exactly, while a pooled anchor keeps it. State agreement more than doubles, within-person labels improve while age and sex do not, and the gain holds on two backbones and two further databases. Conditioning on the recording turns distillation toward the within-person changes that wearables monitor.
[LG-132] PXtal: Learning to Align Powder X-Ray Diffraction and Crystal Structures under Information Asymmetry across Modalities
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10653
作者: Zhuoran Yang,Christopher M. Collins,Bei Peng,Luke M. Daniels,Matthew J. Rosseinsky,Vladimir V. Gusev
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
*备注: 22 pages, 2 figures, 14 tables
Abstract:Scientific multimodal learning commonly assumes that paired views are comparably informative. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) makes this mismatch explicit: compressing a three-dimensional crystal structure into a one-dimensional diffraction pattern loses information and makes the pattern harder to connect to the crystal structure that produced it. We introduce PXtal, a framework for learning aligned PXRD and crystal representations under this physically imposed information asymmetry. PXtal uses Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) to adapt the cross-modal coupling and coupling-level generalized Kullback-Leibler (GKL) divergence to supervise the full transport plan. Across six test sets, including four zero-shot transfer sets, PXtal consistently outperforms the baseline models in PXRD-to-crystal candidate retrieval, with the largest gains when PXRD patterns have close but crystallographically distinct nonpaired neighbors, meaning similar input patterns associated with different crystals. The resulting crystal and PXRD encoders transfer more effectively to downstream materials and crystallographic tasks. These results identify information asymmetry as a general design problem in scientific multimodal learning: alignment objectives should reflect what each modality preserves.
[LG-133] Leakage-Controlled Multimodal Learning for Diagnosis and Progression Prediction in Alzheimers Disease Research
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10648
作者: Akeem Temitope Otapo,Ghazaleh Khodabandelou,Zuheng Ming,Alice Othmani
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Alzheimer’s disease prediction involves irregular visits, heterogeneous measurements and incomplete modalities. This study presents a multimodal multitask framework combining an adapted SFCN MRI encoder, four causal clinical Transformers, shared fusion and task-specific ODE-GRU dynamics. Fine-tuning and LoRA adapt the final two MRI blocks. Task-DRO balances task losses, while Group-CVaR targets cohort and comorbidity strata. Branch-specific input controls, subject-grouped partitions and empirical causality checks support longitudinal evaluation. Across 2,649 subjects and 17,317 visits from ADNI, OASIS-2 and MIRIAD, internal validation yields diagnosis, stage-1 progression and first-stage-1-visit progression AUROCs of 0.935 +/- 0.002, 0.884 +/- 0.003 and 0.870 +/- 0.005, respectively (mean +/- SD across three seeds). Corresponding hybrid AUROCs are 0.951, 0.909 and 0.896. Next-visit MMSE mean absolute error (MAE) is 1.61 points; worst-stratum diagnosis AUROC is 0.827 +/- 0.008. Sampled ADNI explanations identify task-specific input dependence. OASIS-3 external validation yields network and hybrid diagnosis AUROCs of 0.763 and 0.767, hybrid next-visit progression AUROC of 0.764, diagnosis calibration error decreasing from 0.197 to 0.052, and next-visit MMSE MAE of 0.86. Seed-42 paired ablations of six components yield pooled diagnosis and progression AUROC differences between -0.004 and +0.004; removing clinical encoder inputs lowers diagnosis AUROC by 0.272. The framework integrates longitudinal prediction, missing-modality handling, auxiliary comorbidity modelling and subgroup evaluation within a common pipeline.
[LG-134] D-SLR: The Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank Decomposition
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10636
作者: Vincent Szolnoky
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Compressing a matrix for reconstruction still defaults to the truncated SVD, approximating the data with a single low-rank structure. It is common to reduce the residual further by adding an overlapping row-sparse component, but methods that solve this joint problem often require iterative solvers and tuning of regularization parameters. We propose the Disjoint Row-Sparse plus Low-Rank (D-SLR) decomposition, a closed-form drop-in for the truncated SVD that improves or exactly matches it. D-SLR restricts rows to either being stored verbatim or approximated by the low-rank fit, never both. Under squared error this restriction costs nothing: the joint optimum is attainable disjointly with fewer parameters at every non-trivial rank and stored row count (shape). With zero stored rows D-SLR reduces to the truncated SVD, so it never does worse at equal cost. The algorithm scores the entire error-versus-parameters tradeoff, and the solution is chosen afterwards by a supplied error target or parameter count, or by a selection rule. The grid and solution together cost three SVDs, with no tuning or regularization. We derive an assumption-free, a-posteriori lower bound on the error at every shape, giving each solution a computable certificate on the potential gain of any other choice of rank and stored rows. Experiments on synthetic and real data (LLM embedding tables, network traffic, hyperspectral images) confirm the gains and quantify the certificate.
[LG-135] Sample-Efficiency of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10627
作者: Kevin Riehl,Shaimaa K. El-Baklish,Fan Wu,Anastasios Kouvelas
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Deep reinforcement learning has achieved substantial performance gains over classical control approaches. Yet, a central challenge to learning in real-world applications is acquiring costly samples. Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks are a recently proposed architecture that can learn physical relationships in control problems effectively, with significantly higher parameter efficiency and interpretability when compared to Multi-Layer-Perceptron architectures. In this work, we systematically study sample-efficiency using computational experiments, covering the Feynman dataset and the Gymnasium RL benchmark. The results show that similar performance can be achieved with 40% fewer samples using the Kolmogorov-Arnold architecture, and that relative performance improvements up to 50% occur during the training process. The observed gains are robust to varying levels of noise in rewards. These results highlight the potential of the Kolmogorov-Arnold architectures for more sample-efficient reinforcement learning. Code: this https URL
[LG-136] Exact SO(3)-Equivariant Isotropic Kernels for Rotation-Robust Neural Dynamics NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10626
作者: Ridham Patel
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 Workshop NeurReps (Proceedings Track)
Abstract:Neural surrogates for vector-valued partial differential equations can fit training data yet change their predictions when the same physical state is expressed in a rotated coordinate frame. We study this failure on three-dimensional Navier–Stokes dynamics observed at irregularly placed points. We introduce the Invariant-Conditioned Isotropic Kernel Neural Operator (IKNO), a compact graph model that builds local interactions from scalar quantities unchanged by rotation and vector directions that rotate with the data. Consequently, rotating the positions and velocities rotates the predicted velocity change in exactly the same way. On a held-out test set fixed after model design, training unconstrained graph models on randomly rotated examples reduces but does not eliminate their coordinate dependence. In contrast, IKNO is consistent to numerical precision, matches the forecasting accuracy of a general rotation-aware Tensor Field Network with 5.6 times fewer parameters, and outperforms a parameter-matched graph simulator. These results show that a compact, PDE-specialized model can remove coordinate dependence without sacrificing forecasting accuracy.
[LG-137] Safe at One Loop Risky at Another: Aligning Safety Across Recurrent Depths in Looped Language Models ICLR2027
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10625
作者: Yi Wang,Xiuyuan Qi,Dongqi Han,Dongsheng Li,Wenjie Wang
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 25 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to ICLR 2027
Abstract:Looped Language Models (LoopLMs) provide a parameter efficient approach to scaling model capabilities through repeated use of shared parameters across recurrent steps. Since each recurrent depth can be read out independently, a single LoopLM exposes a broader output space across inference depths, raising an important question: whether safety is preserved throughout recurrent computation. Prior evaluations suggest that deeper recurrence can improve safety on harmful queries, but robustness under jailbreak attacks remains unclear. We therefore conduct a comprehensive safety evaluation of LoopLMs under jailbreak attacks targeting different recurrent depths. We find that attack success can increase at deeper inference depths, the same query can elicit different safety behaviors across depths, and attacks constructed against one depth can transfer to others. Moreover, SFT and preference alignment do not eliminate these safety gaps, motivating an alignment method designed for LoopLMs. We introduce SafeBridge, which combines lightweight depth specific control of shared recurrent layers, selective state bridging, and joint safety supervision across recurrent depths. Across model scales, multiple attack methods, and safety benchmarks, SafeBridge substantially reduces attack success for both matched-depth and cross-depth attacks. It also improves general utility over the vanilla models while maintaining comparable over-refusal behavior. Our results show that the safety of a LoopLM cannot be inferred from a single recurrent depth, motivating safety alignment across recurrent computation. Our code and model checkpoints will be released upon acceptance.
[LG-138] Self-Organization from Constrained Geometric Radiation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10621
作者: Ming Lei
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 13 pages, 4 figures
Abstract:How does dynamic order emerge spontaneously in closed systems without external driving? Existing paradigms all require external energy flows, temperature quenching, or slow driving. Here we report constraint-induced self-organization via geometric radiation in coupled metric evolution systems. Simulations reveal a universal four-stage cycle: stress accumulation, super-exponential radiation, chaotic collapse, and convergence to a fractal limit cycle, a novel attractor topology we term the wedge-shaped attractor, with five quantized curvature states and fractal micro-fluctuations. We identify four jointly sufficient conditions: an irreversible geometric horizon, persistent stress injection from quantum coherence, endogenous geometric tension between incompatible curvatures, and effective fluctuations. Their synergy triggers a critical avalanche at the horizon boundary. We prove three theorems: the Geometric Horizon Theorem, the Geometric Energy Dissipation Theorem (implying wave-like entropy evolution in closed systems), and the Radiation as Phase Transition Channel Theorem. We further establish the Constraint-Induced Self-Organization Theorem: these conditions guarantee the complete cycle with probability one. Systematic scans reveal a critical noise threshold and power-law scaling of radiation onset. We verify universality across 12 configurations, multiple noise types, and three geometric flows. This work establishes a new paradigm for closed-system self-organization, forging an exact mathematical duality between classical nonlinear constraints and gravitational horizons.
[LG-139] When Routing Reveals Membership: Privacy Leakage from MoE Router Telemetry
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10616
作者: Yixin Tan,Jiayang Liu,Lu Sun,Yuke Hu,Zheng Li,Rui Wen
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
*备注:
Abstract:Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models produce routing information during inference that may be logged or exposed for monitoring, debugging, load analysis, and safety auditing. Unlike ordinary model outputs, this telemetry reveals a view of the model’s internal computation, raising a privacy question: can it reveal whether an example was used to fine-tune the deployed model? We introduce a router-augmented membership inference attack that combines conventional output-side signals with aggregated routing features and applies a membership classifier learned from independently fine-tuned shadow models to the target model. Across three MoE architectures and three data domains, router telemetry consistently improves membership inference over a strong output-signal ensemble, increasing TPR at 1% FPR by 2.7–9.4 percentage points across all nine settings. The leakage persists across full fine-tuning, frozen-router training, LoRA, and instruction tuning, and remains observable with only discrete expert selections, restricted telemetry, or a single shadow model. Mechanistic analysis further shows that the leakage does not require router-specific memorization: fine-tuning introduces membership information into hidden representations, while the router exposes a projection of this signal even when its parameters are frozen. Perturbing the telemetry reduces this additional leakage only as its fidelity degrades. Our results show that router telemetry can turn an operational signal into an additional privacy surface for fine-tuned MoE models.
[LG-140] mporal transformer CAN encoder with federated lightweight heads for anomaly detection
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10613
作者: Konstantinos Gyftodimos,Kyriakos Chiotis,Elena Politi,George Dimitrakopoulos,Eirini Liotou
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
*备注:
Abstract:Modern vehicles rely on large numbers of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) that constantly exchange information over the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. Due to the rapidity, structure, and repetition of this communication, even slight variations in timing, payload values, or message patterns can point to unusual activity. Whether due to errors, malfunctions, or deliberate interference, these anomalies are frequently subtle and challenging to identify with conventional methods that handle messages separately or rely on manually created rules. Motivated by this gap, we present a privacy-preserving framework for anomaly detection in in-vehicle networks, based on a Temporal Transformer CAN Encoder with Federated Lightweight Heads, to better capture these irregularities. The detection of subtle temporal and contextual anomalies is made possible by a lightweight Transformer encoder that learns how these signals evolve over time, while a federated learning mechanism enables several vehicles or ECUs to work together to improve a shared model without exchanging raw CAN data. This combination of federated learning and temporal sequence modeling provides robust anomaly detection performance while maintaining efficiency and privacy, according to experiments conducted on open-source datasets.
[LG-141] Coverag e Not Difficulty Sets How Much Synthetic Data an Activation Probe Needs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10594
作者: Ankush Checkervarty
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 24 pages, 8 figures, 11 tables. Code and data: this https URL
Abstract:Activation probes that monitor deployed language models are trained on synthetic conversations, and how many a probe needs is open. We trace learning curves over 10-590 synthetic samples for three monitoring concepts, high-stakes situations, replies harmful to a person, and replies that do not follow the user’s instruction, on fourteen held-out evaluation distributions and four probe models, varying the generator LLM and the prompt’s detail. The need is set by what is monitored: probes for high-stakes and harmful are within a few hundredths of their plateau from 80 samples on Gemma-3-27B-IT, instruction probes need several times as many, and the ordering holds on three smaller probe models and on real samples (from dev set). Prior work advises spending a generation budget on breadth, more kinds of data, over depth, more of each kind. We read the depth a concept needs as the half-gain size of a fitted curve, the number of samples at which half the gain is in hand. Concept and distribution account for 42-45% of its variance, the generator, probe model, and prompt detail for under 10%. What sets the value of the half-gain size is coverage, not per-kind difficulty: the number of samples of its own kind a distribution needs to saturate. Every kind, one per evaluation distribution, has a median half-gain size of 7-11 own-kind synthetic samples under all three concepts alike. What differs is how far samples of one kind transfer to the concept’s other kinds, almost fully under high-stakes, less under harmful, and least under instruction, which accounts for most of the gap between concepts on generated and real samples. Breadth therefore pays differently by concept: many kinds are necessary under instruction, where no kind covers another, and nearly redundant under high-stakes, where one kind covers the rest. We release the evaluation suites, dev sets, and generated sets.
[LG-142] SPERA: Spherical Prior EEG Foundation Model with Geometry- and Frequency-Aware Latent Prediction NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10571
作者: Minsu Kim,Ye-Sung Kim,Hyeseong Jeon,Wooseok Hyung,Joshua Lee,Chang-Hwan Im
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive measure of ongoing neural activity, but building general-purpose EEG models remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of subjects, devices, and electrode montages. Existing EEG foundation models predominantly rely on reconstruction-based objectives defined on the observed signal, which contains both neural and non-neural components. We introduce SPERA (Spherical Prior EEG Representation Architecture), an EEG foundation model that adopts the joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA) to predict in latent space. SPERA introduces a Legendre-polynomial spatial prior, incorporated into attention to encode varying scalp electrode geometries. Two further components adapt the model to EEG: factorized temporal and spatial attention interleaved with periodic full-attention blocks, and a relational spectral regularizer aligning latent similarity structure with spectral views. Pretrained on approximately 80,000 hours of EEG from 29,048 subjects across 106 datasets, SPERA achieves the highest average balanced accuracy across nine downstream tasks spanning clinical, cognitive, and BCI applications. SPERA further exhibits strong parameter efficiency under linear probing and robustness across varying recording conditions, suggesting its potential as a general-purpose backbone for diverse EEG analyses.
[LG-143] GaussianBench: Physics-Fidelity Evaluation for Gaussian Scene Representations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10554
作者: Chukwudalu Dumebi-Kachikwu
类目: Graphics (cs.GR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:3D Gaussian Splatting has evolved from static reconstruction toward physics-integrated representations meant to predict how scenes change under interaction. This creates an evaluation problem: a rollout can look plausible while relying on incorrect internal mechanics, and visual agreement with observed motion does not establish a correct response to a new force, material edit, contact, or thermal intervention. We introduce GaussianBench, a physics-fidelity evaluation suite for physics-integrated Gaussian scene representations. It uses frozen file-based scenes, simulator-independent scorers, and analytical or measured references. The benchmark tests conservation, continuum response, heterogeneous-material coupling, Gaussian covariance transport and rendering, thermal phase change, and counterfactual response. Each reference declares its regime of validity, and outcomes distinguish PASS, FAIL, NA, and INVALID, separating physical failures from unsupported capabilities and invalid comparisons. We also provide GaussianFlesh, a thermomechanical reference entrant in which persistent 3D Gaussians act as both rendering primitives and continuum material points, advanced by a shared-grid MPM solver with per-particle constitutive dispatch and persistent thermal and phase state. We evaluate six released external systems: PhysGaussian, GaussianFluent, OmniPhysGS, PhysDreamer, Physics3D, and GASP. Testing every system the same way reveals failures that their original evaluations missed: a system can simulate a single material correctly but fail where two materials meet, or update its Gaussians correctly for a deformation it never produced. Matched faults and tolerance audits confirm these distinctions arise from the intended tests. Physics-integrated Gaussian systems must therefore be tested on their internal physical state, not just on whether their rollouts look plausible.
[LG-144] Density Ratio Estimation with Stein Displacement Fields
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12437
作者: Song Liu
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Density ratios quantify distribution shift from a probability-mass point of view, whereas displacement fields describe, from a dynamical point of view, how one distribution is transported onto another. Although both offer complementary insights, they are usually estimated separately, and converting one into the other requires post-processing. In this paper, we estimate the density ratio between a target and a base distribution by parametrizing it through a displacement field acting on the base: the log-ratio is modeled as minus the Stein operator of the base applied to the field, up to a normalizing constant. This gives both statistical and dynamical descriptions of the distribution shift through a single convex optimization problem. Iterating this estimate-and-move step gives two inference algorithms: push-forward moves the model and corrects a pretrained sampler without retraining it, whereas pull-back moves the data closer to the base and fits a transformation model one layer at a time. Applications to distribution shift in simulation-based inference and to nonlinear independent component analysis illustrate the benefits and limitations of the approach.
[LG-145] Density Ratio Estimation with Stein Displacement Fields
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12437
作者: Song Liu
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Density ratios quantify distribution shift from a probability-mass point of view, whereas displacement fields describe, from a dynamical point of view, how one distribution is transported onto another. Although both offer complementary insights, they are usually estimated separately, and converting one into the other requires post-processing. In this paper, we estimate the density ratio between a target and a base distribution by parametrizing it through a displacement field acting on the base: the log-ratio is modeled as minus the Stein operator of the base applied to the field, up to a normalizing constant. This gives both statistical and dynamical descriptions of the distribution shift through a single convex optimization problem. Iterating this estimate-and-move step gives two inference algorithms: push-forward moves the model and corrects a pretrained sampler without retraining it, whereas pull-back moves the data closer to the base and fits a transformation model one layer at a time. Applications to distribution shift in simulation-based inference and to nonlinear independent component analysis illustrate the benefits and limitations of the approach.
[LG-146] oward Joint Optimization of Circuit Depth and Training Data Size in Adaptively Grown Quantum Classifiers
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12428
作者: Saeefa Rubaiyet Nowmi,Md Mahmuduzzaman Kamol,Mohammad Saidur Rahman
类目: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Building a quantum model involves a tradeoff: how complex the circuit should be, and how much training data it needs. Caro et al. show that models with fewer trainable gates need less training data to generalize well. Q-FLAIR shows that a quantum feature-map circuit can be grown gate-by-gate, stopping once further growth stops improving the training loss. We ask whether these two results combine into a predictable scaling law. Does Q-FLAIR’s own stopping rule pick larger or smaller circuits as training data grows? Does the resulting generalization behavior track Caro et al.'s bound? We reimplement Q-FLAIR’s growth mechanism faithfully, including its analytic reconstruction and exact stopping rule. We run it on full-resolution (784-pixel) MNIST 3-vs-5 classification, at five training-set sizes from N = 2000 to 10000. We then fine-tune each resulting circuit, so we can measure Caro et al.'s notion of active gates, K. We find no predictable relationship between training-set size and the circuit size Q-FLAIR converges to. Circuit size and test accuracy both vary non-monotonically with N, and seed-to-seed variance is nearly as large as any trend across N. The empirical generalization gap never exceeds Caro et al.'s bound in 14 of 15 runs, so the bound holds as a valid guarantee in those runs. But the gap correlates only weakly with the bound’s value (r = 0.12). This shows that K does not explain most of the variation we observe. Why a valid guarantee can coexist with such weak predictive power remains an open question, and answering it may be necessary before circuit depth and training data size can be jointly optimized in practice. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2610.12428 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2610.12428v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.12428 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Journalreference: NeurIPS 2026 Workshop SaTQuML: Secure and Trustworthy Quantum Machine Learning, NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
[LG-147] Subspace Uncertainty and Sharp Sampling Thresholds on the Boolean Cube
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12358
作者: Thomas Weinberger
类目: Probability (math.PR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Combinatorics (math.CO)
*备注:
Abstract:We study Gaussian regression under squared population L_2 loss in a known m -dimensional subspace of degree-at-most- k functions on the d -dimensional Boolean cube. Random inputs can undersample regions essential for prediction, delaying the parametric rate even when the model is known. For fixed q_01/2 , 1\le k\le q_0d , and sufficiently large fixed A , the worst-subspace sample threshold for minimax error A\sigma^2(m+t)/n with confidence 1-e^-t , t\ge\log4 , is [ N=(m+t)\exp\E_d,k+O(k^1/3), \quad E_d,k=d\Psi(k/d), ] where \Psi(q)=\log2-\mathsf H(\tfrac12-\sqrtq(1-q)) and \mathsf H is binary entropy with natural logarithms. The upper bound holds for every feasible m ; the matching lower bound holds when m\le\binom d\lfloor k^1/3\rfloor or t\ge m . We sharpen the Polyanskiy–Samorodnitsky uncertainty principle in two respects. First, for fixed leakage \rho\in(0,1) , the smallest set carrying a fraction 1-\rho of a nonzero degree-at-most- k polynomial’s energy has probability \exp-E_d,k+O_\rho,q_0(k^1/3)\ . An Airy-kernel construction proves that the remainder cannot be o(k^1/3) in general. Second, we construct a subspace of dimension \binom d\lfloor k^1/3\rfloor such that every function in the subspace has at least a fraction 1-\rho of its energy on the same set, whose probability is at most \exp-E_d,k+C_\rho,q_0k^1/3\ . For sufficiently large k , this set is a Hamming ball. A striking consequence is an exponential cost of noise: the parametric rate can require (m+t)4^k\exp-O(k^1/3)\ samples, whereas O((m+t)2^k) suffice for noiseless identification. As k\to\infty with k/d\to0 , the noisy threshold is (m+t)\exp\2k+o(k)\ . Subjects: Probability (math.PR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Combinatorics (math.CO) Cite as: arXiv:2610.12358 [math.PR] (or arXiv:2610.12358v1 [math.PR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.12358 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Thomas Weinberger [view email] [v1] Thu, 8 Oct 2026 17:23:25 UTC (39 KB)
[LG-148] ISBO: Scalable Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Optimization with Log Gaussian Cox Process Models via the INLA-SPDE Approach
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12213
作者: Kaichuang Yang,Håvard Rue,Jakob Zeitler
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a popular method for efficiently optimizing expensive black-box objectives. However, BO utilizing standard Gaussian Processes is ill-suited for doubly stochastic Cox Processes that are often used in spatio-temporal problem spaces. We introduce INLA-SPDE Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Optimization (ISBO): the first scalable BO framework for spatio-temporal data, that models the log-intensity with a Log-Gaussian Cox Process(LGCP) and performs inference via Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (INLA-SPDE) approach. Using a Matern field on meshes yields a sparse Gaussian Markov Random Field, where INLA provides fast and accurate posterior inference throughout sequential optimization. ISBO stably locates high-intensity regions and the peak of the latent intensity with minimal evaluations. A time-varying Upper Confidence Bound acquisition with masking avoids revisits, while penalized-complexity priors regularize early rounds. Experiments on synthetic and real-world spatio-temporal datasets show accurate peak discovery, intensity recovery, and substantial speedups over an RKHS-based baseline, positioning ISBO as a practical choice for BO with point-process data.
[LG-149] Quickest Change Detection with Diffusion-Integrated Scores
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12200
作者: Arman Adibi,Mohammadreza Maleki,Sanjeev Kulkarni,H. Vincent Poor
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Classical CUSUM relies on the log-likelihood ratio of the underlying distributions, which cannot generally be computed from finite pre- and post-change samples alone. We propose diffusion-integrated score CUSUM (DI-SCUSUM), a training-free detector. We add Gaussian noise to the samples to form two smooth density estimates and calculate their Hyvärinen scores exactly, without training a score network. For each incoming observation, we sample a diffusion time, perturb the observation, and use the importance-weighted score difference as an increment in the DI-SCUSUM recursion. Under the assumption that observations follow the fixed empirical distributions, the post-change mean increment is proportional to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence from the smoothed post-change to the smoothed pre-change empirical distribution. We establish exponential false-alarm scaling and a first-order delay bound that, for a fixed threshold and increment scaling, is inversely proportional to the KL divergence. In the calibrated anisotropic Gaussian simulation, DI-SCUSUM nearly matches likelihood-ratio CUSUM and reduces the measured detection delay by about 91% relative to score-based CUSUM. On MNIST and Oxford-IIIT Pet, DI-SCUSUM also has lower empirical conditional detection delay than SCUSUM at comparable false-alarm levels.
[LG-150] A structure-preserving neural density functional for the ions of a polymer electrolyte
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12132
作者: Liyao Lyu
类目: oft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
*备注:
Abstract:Predicting the structure and response of inhomogeneous polymer electrolytes requires a description of ion correlations that retains molecular-scale accuracy while remaining transferable across spatial scales and geometries. We develop a neural density functional for electrolytes that preserves spatial symmetries, thermodynamic integrability and the Noether identities, with perfect screening recovered in stable, noncritical bulk states. Its nonlinear density dependence captures the concentration-dependent correlations missed by a pair closure, including a crossover from enhanced to suppressed long-wavelength number fluctuations at strong coupling. The functional describes density profiles at an untrained salt concentration and predicts bulk structure factors and the long-wavelength number response. Trained solely on planar density and internal-force profiles from molecular dynamics, the functional predicts ionic structure in larger domains and in two-dimensional external fields. On the same ion data, it is more accurate than three other neural density-functional architectures and keeps its accuracy with a quarter of the training runs, where the errors of the best alternative grow by about two thirds. The spatial transferability provides a necessary foundation for connecting molecular correlations to continuum predictions at larger scales.
[LG-151] Differentiable Systematic Resampling for Variational Sequential Monte Carlo NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12094
作者: Fredrik Cumlin,Saikat Chatterjee
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
*备注: Accepted to NeurIPS 2026
Abstract:Particle filters are a standard tool for nonlinear state estimation, but their resampling step is discrete, preventing gradient-based learning in variational sequential Monte Carlo. We introduce Differentiable Systematic Resampling (DSR), a temperature-controlled relaxation of systematic resampling, that preserves the CDF-ordered, banded structure of systematic resampling while enabling full gradient flow. DSR converges to exact systematic resampling as the temperature vanishes, and we prove a pointwise exponential convergence rate for the induced bias. Compared to optimal-transport-based differentiable resampling, DSR avoids iterative solvers and has substantially lower computational overhead. Experiments on stochastic dynamical systems and real-world handwriting data show that DSR achieves comparable or superior filtering and dynamics learning performance.
[LG-152] Diffusion Removes Langevins Conditioning Dependence: A Sharp Gaussian Analysis
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12052
作者: Adam Perbost,Francis Bach,Pierre Marion
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 49 pages (10 main + appendix), 3 figures
Abstract:Despite their empirical success, why diffusion models overcome the bottlenecks of classical score-based samplers remains unclear. In this work, we leverage Gaussian distributions to isolate this phenomenon. We establish 2-Wasserstein convergence bounds for optimized hyperparameters, showing that diffusion processes achieve a sampling error of O(\sqrtd\lambda_\max\log N/N) , where d is the dimension, N the number of sampling steps, and \lambda_\max the largest eigenvalue of the target covariance matrix. Unadjusted and underdamped Langevin dynamics suffer from an additional \sqrt\kappa factor, where \kappa is the condition number. These rates follow from spectral bounds which are sharp: we confirm them via matching first-order asymptotics as N\rightarrow\infty . Our analysis provides a rigorous characterization, in the Gaussian setting, of how time-dependent score trajectories remove condition-number dependence during sampling. By contrast, in the learning phase, we show that estimating the unnoised score by gradient descent leads to essentially the same estimator as estimating a noisy score, which suggests that the benefits of noising do not come from the learning phase.
[LG-153] Efficient and Generalizable Archetypal Analysis for Discrete Data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12035
作者: A. Emilie J. Wedenborg,Jesper Løve Hinrich,Morten Mørup
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Archetypal Analysis (AA) represents observations as convex combinations of extremal data-driven profiles, yielding interpretable low-dimensional descriptions of complex datasets. Classical AA relies on a least-squares objective, which is poorly suited to discrete observations such as binary, count, and categorical data. We introduce an efficient likelihood-based framework for AA supporting Bernoulli, Poisson, and multinomial observation models. Our optimization scheme employs local quadratic approximations of the negative log-likelihood, enabling constrained updates through sequential minimal optimization (SMO) and an active-set method. Scalability is improved by bounding the active set while preserving simplex feasibility. We further introduce a cross-validated predictive likelihood criterion for selecting the number of archetypes, providing a principled alternative to reconstruction-error heuristics and stability-based diagnostics. Synthetic experiments demonstrate computational efficiency and accurate recovery of model complexity. Applications to single-cell RNA sequencing, microbiome composition, and somatic mutation data show that the learned archetypes capture interpretable domain-specific structures while achieving competitive likelihood fits and stable solutions. Overall, the proposed framework enables efficient likelihood-based archetypal analysis of discrete data, complemented by predictive likelihood-based model selection.
[LG-154] Ghost tasking for parametrized Gaussian Processes solving linear differential equations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12009
作者: Johanna Moser,Christopher Albert,Sascha Ranftl
类目: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 46 pages, 14 figures, for reproducibility: this https URL
Abstract:Physics-informed machine learning has gained significant attention in recent years. In regimes of limited data, parametrized Gaussian processes have become popular. Existing approaches, however, often face limitations, such as requiring parametrizable (also called controllable) systems or a large number of output tasks. In this work, we introduce a systematic procedure we call “ghost tasking”, using auxiliary tasks to circumvent these limitations. We prove that such ghost tasks can render any non-parametrizable system effectively parametrizable, enabling algorithmic construction of parametrized Gaussian Processes while keeping the number of required tasks (i.e. output dimensions) and latent functions low. We find that ghost tasking performs especially well in an inverse problem setting, even with very few available data. We show the usage and power of ghost tasking in three experiments, providing systematic comparisons to the only other currently available method applicable to all experiments. We provide necessary syntax and explications for two computer algebra programs that compute parametrizations for systems with polynomial or rational coefficients. Our theoretical results extend to systems with meromorphic functions.
[LG-155] Efficient quadratic entropy with distance sketches
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11976
作者: Steve Huntsman
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Computation (stat.CO)
*备注: Code for reproducing results in LaTeX comments
Abstract:We detail scalable methods for approximating the quadratic entropy p^T d p for arbitrary distributions p and common distances d of negative type. We focus on the Euclidean and spherical geodesic cases, which both use random feature embeddings and projections to dramatically improve computational complexity within a simple framework. Amortization of a single large matrix multiplication and control variates further enable computation at large scale with low memory and runtime in situations where d is held constant while p varies. We demonstrate this with a comparison against direct pair sampling and bibliometric/scientometric examples on Open Graph Benchmark datasets, revealing papers, fields, and institutions with both particularly narrow and broad interdisciplinary reach from their citations and text features alone.
[LG-156] Score-Based Learning of Cluster DAGs from Interventions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11947
作者: Gaetano Tedesco(University of Amsterdam),Alex Markham(University of Copenhagen)
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Graphical approaches to causal abstraction transform a low-level causal directed acyclic graph (DAG) over many measured variables into a smaller, high-level DAG whose nodes cluster the original variables and whose edges summarize the causal relations between clusters. Such cluster DAGs are easier to interpret, but learning them requires finding the clusters and recovering the edges between them. Madaleno et al. (2026) learn the interventional coarsening (the cluster DAG that merges variables the interventions cannot distinguish) in two constraint-based phases: first the clusters, then the edges. We introduce COARSE, the first score-based method for this task: it keeps the two-phase structure but, under linear Gaussian assumptions, swaps the constraint-based edge phase for a score-based one. We show that the interventions themselves identify a causal order over the clusters, and learning the edges reduces to a single local search per cluster under a cluster-level BIC score. We prove that the procedure runs in polynomial time and, provided the variables affected by each intervention are correctly identified, that it is consistent. On synthetic and real-world interventional data, COARSE matches state-of-the-art edge recovery given enough samples, with an edge phase up to two orders of magnitude faster, including on dense graphs with hundreds of nodes.
[LG-157] RobustLDS: Learning linear dynamical systems under adversarial corruptions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11906
作者: Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana,Hemant Tyagi
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
*备注: 40 pages, 8 figures
Abstract:We consider the problem of learning linear dynamical systems under adversarial contamination from a single trajectory of length T . While identification of linear dynamical systems itself is well-studied, the problem of robust system identification under adversarial contamination is relatively less explored. In this work, we study the setting where a fraction of the T observations are contaminated by adversarial outliers. We propose different estimators based on relaxations of least-trimmed squares along with an alternating minimization algorithm. Furthermore, we also propose two estimators which exploit the group-sparsity (through penalization/hard-constraints) of the outliers. For the estimator with group-sparse penalty, we derive non-asymptotic error bounds which establish its robustness to outliers. We also show empirically that the proposed estimators work well in practice.
[LG-158] Learning structured linear dynamical systems from missing observations
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11869
作者: Aravinda Kanchana Ruwanpathirana,Hemant Tyagi,Sunny G.W. Wang
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
*备注: 62 pages, 3 figures
Abstract:We consider the problem of learning structured linear dynamical systems over convex sets \mathcalK , where only a small subset of the observations are available at each time point. An estimator which minimizes a bias-corrected, potentially non-convex objective function is proposed. Non-asymptotic bounds are obtained for the statistical error, which depend on the local complexity of \mathcalK , the trajectory length T , and the sub-sampling probability p . Convergence of the projected gradient descent algorithm is also established. The general theory is applied to settings where (i) \mathcalK is a subspace, (ii) \mathcalK is the set of bi-isotonic matrices, and (iii) \mathcalK is the set of matrices whose rows are formed by sampling Lipschitz functions. We show meaningful recovery of the transition matrix is possible for values of T much smaller than what is required in the unconstrained case, and for p = o(1) .
[LG-159] Conditional Kernel Stein Discrepancy
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11863
作者: Federico Matteucci,Florian Kalinke
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
*备注:
Abstract:Kernel Stein discrepancies (KSDs) provide a versatile tool for comparing distributions. One of their main applications is in quantifying the goodness-of-fit (GoF) between a data-generating distribution and a prescribed target distribution. In this work, we study the related problem of conditional GoF quantification: given only a (possibly non-normalized) conditional target model, without information on the distribution of its covariates, and samples from a joint distribution, the goal is to assess how well the conditional distribution of the samples matches the target. To tackle this setting, we present a framework that allows lifting unconditional KSDs to the conditional setting through an operator-valued kernel on the covariate space, going beyond the known Euclidean case. We establish that our suggested statistic vanishes if and only if the conditional model and the true conditional distribution agree for almost all covariates and deploy it to test conditional GoF on smooth manifolds and on discrete spaces. Our experiments on level, power, and runtime demonstrate the viability of testing on these domains using the proposed statistic.
[LG-160] Softmax Attention on Gaussian Mixtures: Linear When It Can Selective When It Must
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11798
作者: Simon Gabet(LMO),Etienne Boursier(LMO, CELESTE),Claire Boyer(LMO, IUF)
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Softmax attention, at the heart of Transformers, has demonstrated remarkable capabilities. Yet its underlying mechanisms remain only partially understood. Recent theoretical work studies Gaussian prompts, where the infinite-prompt limit reduces softmax attention to a linear map, but also removes the query-dependent selection that distinguishes it from linear attention. This work studies the infinite-prompt limit of softmax attention on Gaussian mixtures, which retain the tractability of Gaussian data while introducing latent structure, multimodality, and nonlinear dependencies. We show that softmax attention can represent and learn, via gradient-based methods, optimal solutions to a range of statistical tasks, including supervised classification and denoising. Our results highlight two complementary capabilities of softmax attention: it can recover linear tasks as effectively as its simpler linear counterpart, while also exploiting query-dependent context selection to solve nonlinear tasks beyond the reach of linear attention.
[LG-161] Optimal random quantisers for spherically symmetric distributions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11772
作者: Luc Pronzato,Anatoly Zhigljavsky
类目: atistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Zador’s celebrated theorem is a cornerstone of optimal quantisation: it establishes both the weak limit of the empirical distribution of an optimal n -point quantiser in R^d and the decay rate of the associated L_s -mean quantisation error. In large dimension, however, observing this asymptotic behaviour requires an astronomically large sample size. We prove that, for spherically symmetric target distributions, optimisation over all spherically symmetric distributions is a convex problem and derive an equivalence theorem that both characterises global optimality and yields a constructive algorithm. We show that, for moderate n , random quantisers uniformly distributed on a sphere of suitably chosen radius R perform exceptionally well and, over a broad range of values of n , are numerically certified to be optimal among all random quantisers. Their expected distortion has an explicit integral representation that can be evaluated to arbitrary precision, and we prove concentration across random quantisers: the distortion variance tends to zero as n\to\infty for fixed d . For s=2 , both the optimal radius and the associated minimum expected distortion admit exact expressions. For general s , the optimal radius can be determined efficiently, and extreme-value theory provides useful approximations when n grows with d . Depending on this growth rate, R either converges to zero or approaches a positive limit that is independent of s .
[LG-162] Beyond QAOA: A Review of AI and Quantum Computing for Adaptive Combinatorial Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11759
作者: Hoong Chuin LAU
类目: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
*备注: 34 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables. Review article. Supplementary evidence matrix (coded data for all 119 papers) included as an ancillary file
Abstract:Near-term quantum approaches to combinatorial optimization are limited by qubit counts, circuit fidelity, sampling cost, and the difficulty of encoding constraints, while machine learning is increasingly used to configure and control quantum optimization workflows. We call such workflows adaptive: decisions conventionally fixed in advance, from formulation and penalties to shot budgets, backends, and whether to invoke a quantum processor at all, are made by learned policies that respond to the instance, the progress of the solve, or the hardware. This review examines three paradigms, AI for quantum optimization, quantum for AI-driven optimization, and AI-quantum co-optimization, and organizes the literature by the decision being learned rather than by application. A structured review of 119 papers, 67 coded in detail, shows that the evidence is considerably stronger for AI-assisted quantum optimization than for the reverse direction: learning already reduces quantum evaluations, improves initialization, supports decomposition and penalty control, and mitigates noise, whereas evidence that quantum computation improves learned optimizers remains largely confined to small-scale simulation. Experimental controls are thin: 25 of 57 studies include no classical baseline, the quantum contribution is fully isolated in 10 of 24 studies where an ablation applies, and the median experiment uses 17 qubits. We introduce an M0-M5 evidence hierarchy, from simulation to matched-resource practical advantage, and find no broadly convincing result at the highest level. We argue that scaling is increasingly a systems problem: the question is not only whether a problem fits on a quantum processor, but how classical and quantum resources should be allocated across the optimization process. The review is aimed at researchers in quantum computing, machine learning, and operations research.
[LG-163] σTransfer: Uncertainty Transfer from Small to Large Networks under μmathrmP
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11668
作者: Richard Bergna(1 and 2),Fernando Ruiz Mazo(1),Nicolò Felicioni(2),José Miguel Hernández-Lobato(1),Kamil Ciosek(2) ((1) University of Cambridge, (2) Spotify)
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Reliable predictive uncertainty in Laplace approximations depends critically on the prior precision, yet selecting it requires a posterior sweep that is prohibitively expensive for neural networks with billions of parameters. Under the Maximal Update Parametrization ( \mu\mathrmP ), we derive a rescaling of the prior covariance that makes the selected precision stable as model width grows. This leads to \sigma\mathrmTransfer : we select the precision on a smaller model and zero-shot transfer it to the much larger model, i.e., without searching for the precision on the larger model at all. We show convergence of the prior kernel, posterior covariance, selected precision, and posterior-derived decisions under explicit conditions, and verify \sigma\mathrmTransfer across regression, image classification, and Transformer readouts. For example, measured precision-sweep speedups reach \sim 5000\times when transferring from width 128 to 4096 on MNIST, at a target-NLL degradation of 0.002 ; transferring from a public 1B to 7B model gives a median search speedup of \sim 2.3\times (up to \sim 330\times ), with a mean measured target-NLL increase below 10^-4 across ten tasks. The same posterior stability also enables transfer of acquisition, OOD-detection, and abstention decisions without constructing a target posterior.
[LG-164] Minimax Gaussian Mechanisms for Continual Machine Unlearning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11628
作者: Qi Kuang,Yin Xia
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Machine unlearning updates a trained model after records are deleted, aiming to match exact retraining without repeating the full training procedure. We develop Gaussian mechanisms for Newton updates under sequential deletion requests. Using Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) and its adaptive composition rule, we show that the full sequence of released models is statistically difficult to distinguish from matched exact retraining. To calibrate these mechanisms for empirical risk minimization, we derive upper bounds on the error of the Newton approximation relative to exact retraining and on how this error changes after each deletion batch. Independent Gaussian noise is calibrated using bounds on the full residual at each release, whereas Gaussian random walk noise uses smaller bounds on residual increments. These bounds yield allocations minimizing the worst-case maximum noise variance across releases under the resulting GDP certification constraints. With count-based bounds, the random walk asymptotically matches the worst-case variance of a single release at deletion cap M , while independent noise incurs an additional factor of order M . Set-based bounds can reduce the noise variances by using gradients and Hessians of the deleted records. For singleton deletion, we further show that count-based independent noise, count-based random walk noise, and set-based independent noise are minimax among fixed Gaussian covariances under their respective residual or increment bounds. With set-based bounds, allowing variances to adapt to deleted records can improve on every fixed covariance by a factor of order (\log M)^2 on some data sequences. The residual and noise bounds also yield parameter and predictive consistency relative to exact retraining, uniformly over deletion policies. Simulations and a credit default data analysis evaluate bounds, noise variances, and estimation errors.
[LG-165] Randomized Transport Maps for Model-Free Policy-Gradient Mean-Field Control
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11619
作者: Adonis Jamal,Samy Mekkaoui,Yadh Hafsi,Huyên Pham
类目: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We develop a model-free policy gradient method for discrete-time mean-field control (MFC). In MFC, the policy affects the objective both through the controlled dynamics and through the population distribution. Standard REINFORCE estimators capture the first effect but not the second. We introduce Transport REINFORCE, a transport map-based approach that perturbs a suitable transformation of the population distribution to estimate this missing mean-field contribution. The method applies to both finite and continuous state spaces. In finite state spaces, we perturb the population distribution directly on the probability simplex through a convex combination of the current population weights and random weights. In continuous state spaces, we project the population distribution onto the manifold of Gaussian mixtures, and then randomize it via a transport map that ensures the perturbed law remains within this manifold. We prove consistency of the perturbed objective and gradient as the perturbation vanishes, and derive bias and mean-square error bounds for the resulting sample-based gradient estimator. Numerical experiments on several MFC benchmarks show that Transport REINFORCE improves over standard REINFORCE.
[LG-166] Embedding-Bias in Conditional Independence Testing
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11584
作者: Nikolaj Thams,Anton Rask Lundborg
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:To test conditional independence of X and Y given a text or an image Z , one conditions on an embedding \psi(Z) in place of Z . The embedded test is valid if Z is independent of X or of Y given \psi(Z) , which cannot be confirmed from data, and when this fails, the rejection probability under the null hypothesis can tend to one. We study this failure, and show that focusing on a specific form of dependence relaxes what the embedding must retain. For a residual correlation test inspired by the Generalised Covariance Measure, validity only requires that the parts of \mathbbE[X \mid Z] and \mathbbE[Y \mid Z] missed by \mathbbE[X \mid \psi(Z)] and \mathbbE[Y \mid \psi(Z)] are uncorrelated. Otherwise, we treat the discarded information as an omitted variable. Under the null hypothesis, the bias equals the absolute correlation of the missed parts times the geometric mean of two partial R^2 values. This identity yields a robust test valid under a declared tolerance for the geometric mean, which, like a sensitivity parameter, is not identified from the data. On synthetic data and text embeddings, the robust test holds its level approximately. On text generated by a language model, under an exact null hypothesis, every embedding, even the generator’s own states, biases the embedded test.
[LG-167] LAIR-Net: Leaky Alignment-Impulse Residual Networks for Tabular Regression
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11538
作者: Rahul Goswami,Aryan Bhambu,Bittu Karmakar
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Deep randomized models fix hidden-layer parameters through random initialization and learn only closed-form readouts, typically adding depth by stacking random trans formations without target-aware control of hidden-state evolution. We propose LAIR Net, the Leaky Alignment-Impulse Residual Network, which mixes a shallow learned anchor into each hidden state through a leaky residual transition. We derive a depth uniform bound on input-perturbation sensitivity and use controlled simulations to attribute gains over a randomized baseline to the anchor rather than recursion or added capacity. Benefits emerge when a nonlinear target structure is learnable at the available noise level and diminish for nearly linear targets or dominant noise. Across 23 benchmark datasets, LAIR-Net achieves the best average rank among eight randomized networks and twelve conventional models, with relative performance associated with the same nonlinear-structure and noise quantities identified in simulation.
[LG-168] An Efficient Quantum Circuit for Flow Model Execution Using Quantum Neural Networks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11537
作者: Rui Che,Ludvig af Klinteberg
类目: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Flow models generate trajectories from an initial distribution to a target distribution by solving an ordinary differential equation defined by a velocity field. Flow matching learns this velocity field by modeling the transport dynamics between the two distributions. Wavefunction flow establishes a formal connection between flow models and quantum dynamics by introducing a continuity Hamiltonian, which drives the Schrödinger evolution of quantum states. In this paper, we investigate accurate and efficient quantum simulation of the wavefunction flow, thereby realizing the efficient implementation of flow models on quantum computers. We first leverage a quantum read-only memory (QROM)-based phase kickback framework for the wavefunction flow simulation, generating probability densities that closely match those produced by the corresponding conventional flow model. To address the high circuit-resource cost, we further incorporate a trained quantum neural network (QNN) into the phase kickback framework, replacing QROM for data encoding. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our proposed method implements flow models on quantum computers more efficiently, since it maintains the accuracy of wavefunction flow simulation compared with the QROM-based framework, and significantly reduces the circuit resources.
[LG-169] Learning qBIC Resonances across Metasurface Families in Dielectric Fourier Space
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11500
作者: Shuangteng Lei,Li Yu,Tianxin Li,Wei Lu
类目: Optics (physics.optics); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
*备注: 45 pages,5 main figures and 1 main table; includes Supplementary Information with 11 supplementary figures and 3 supplementary tables
Abstract:Bound states in the continuum (BIC) metasurfaces are typically described by geometry-specific parameters, hindering cross-geometry comparison, while ultranarrow qBIC features are easily diluted in full-spectrum learning. Here, 2015 samples from seven dielectric metasurface families are mapped to a shared reciprocal-lattice grid, where two frozen low-order Fourier channels capture resonance shifts with mean within-branch R^2 values of 0.871-0.999. Field-level analysis of two representative branches further confirms that these shifts are consistent with the Maxwell-Fourier perturbation picture. A five-channel K-space backbone models the broadband spectrum, while a local complex K-space expert parameterizes the qBIC resonance through a differentiable Fano layer. The expert reduces resonance-position mean absolute error (MAE) from 3.2 to 0.95 nm and the resonance-depth error by 14-fold on a geometry-blocked test set. The same coordinate supports spectrum-to-structure reconstruction.
[LG-170] PSI-SINDy: Post-Selection Inference for Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11486
作者: Ashraful Islam,Shuichi Nishino,Tomohiro Shiraishi,Ichiro Takeuchi
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 47 pages, 3 figures, 16 tables
Abstract:Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) is a data-driven framework for discovering governing dynamics from time-series data by identifying a sparse subset of candidate dynamical terms from a prespecified library. In this work, we develop a statistical inference framework for quantifying the reliability of dynamical terms selected by SINDy through hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. A key difficulty is that using the same noisy trajectory for both selecting dynamical terms and assessing their statistical significance can introduce selection bias. Post-selection inference provides a principled framework for addressing such bias, and we propose PSI-SINDy, a post-selection inference method tailored to SINDy. Direct application of existing post-selection inference techniques is challenging because SINDy involves measurement error in the candidate terms and shared noise between the response and design. To address these challenges, PSI-SINDy uses data thinning to decompose a single observed trajectory into four mutually independent views with distinct roles in selection and inference. This construction enables inference for selected dynamical terms while accounting not only for selection bias but also for measurement-error and shared noise effects. We establish the theoretical validity of PSI-SINDy under stated conditions and evaluate its performance through numerical experiments on simulated and experimental dynamical-system data.
[LG-171] Feature Space Adaptation for Effortless Gaussian Process Flows
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11459
作者: Thomas Cowperthwaite,Louis Sharrock,Lachlan Astfalck,Henry Moss
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
*备注:
Abstract:Outside the linear-Gaussian regime, conditional sampling from Gaussian processes (GPs) is challenging. Recent methods such as FlowGP (Moss et al., (2026)) can condition on arbitrary non-linear and non-Gaussian statements, but at considerable cost: an expensive iterative and high-dimensional diffusion that requires hand-specified kernel hyperparameters. In this paper, we alleviate two significant drawbacks of FlowGP by (1) introducing kernel approximations that enable scaling to high-resolution domains and (2) proposing a way to obtain the marginal likelihood by measuring the work needed to steer the diffusion towards conditioning statements. We enable, for the first time, hyperparameter optimisation within FlowGP and demonstrate our approach on probabilistic downscaling from areal summary statistics, PDE solution inference on irregular domains, and recovery of sea level anomaly fields from non-Gaussian satellite observations.
[LG-172] Beyond Distributional Fidelity: Causal-Penalized Diffusion for Synthetic Tabular Data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11407
作者: Lan Tao,Yongxian He,Shirong Xu,Yidong Ouyang,Guang Cheng
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Synthetic tabular generators are commonly optimized for distributional fidelity, but statistical similarity alone does not guarantee preservation of causal effects. In this paper, we study whether causal fidelity can be improved directly within a fully generative tabular model. Causal Fidelity is defined with respect to a target estimand as the discrepancy between inferential distributions obtained from real and synthetic data, and theoretical results show that high statistical fidelity does not generally imply high causal fidelity. We then propose a causal-fidelity-aware training framework which adds a causal discrepancy penalty to the generative objective. The framework is instantiated with a causal-penalized TabDDPM and optimized using an on-policy score-function estimator. We further establish conditions under which causal regularization improves expected causal fidelity. Experiments across diverse treatment-effect simulations and two benchmark datasets evaluate the ability of our method to improve causal fidelity while preserving competitive statistical fidelity.
[LG-173] Q-Capsule: A Localized Capsule-Based Quantum Neural Architecture for Barren Plateau Mitigation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11261
作者: Awal Ahmed Fime,Tasfia Zaman Samiha,Saika Zaman,Dimitris Pados,George Sklivanitis,Abdur R. Shahid,Ahmed Imteaj
类目: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Variational quantum algorithms are often limited by barren plateaus: gradients vanish as circuit size and depth increase, making quantum neural networks difficult to train. We propose Q-Capsule, a localized capsule-based quantum neural architecture that mitigates this problem through register partitioning, local readout, sparse inter-capsule coupling, trainable data re-uploading, and Quantum Fisher Information Matrix (QFIM)-guided adaptive depth growth. By restricting the dominant support of each observable to a small capsule and controlling inter-capsule entanglement, Q-Capsule preserves useful gradient signals while retaining communication between local quantum representations. As the register width increases, Q-Capsule consistently maintains stable gradient variance, whereas globally entangling baselines exhibit exponential suppression with a log-gradient-variance slope near -ln 2 per qubit. Q-Capsule also produces more structured optimization landscapes, higher parameter efficiency, improved robustness to depolarizing noise, and lower measurement requirements. Its adaptive policy achieves 98.1% accuracy on binary classification and 97.7% on four-class classification, while using approximately 73% fewer two-qubit gates than the fixed-deep model on the multiclass task.
[LG-174] Cross-species representation learning aligns mouse and human neural dynamics and tracks clinical drug efficacy
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11222
作者: Marko Tvrdic,Justin Richmond Domingo,Jae Ann Buenaluz,Jydell Ashley Palomo Penollar,Edmayelle Villavicencio Alforja,Jobi Fallaeria Subosa,Gabriel Ocana-Santero
类目: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
*备注: 33 pages, 5 figures; supplementary material included (2 supplementary figures, 3 supplementary tables)
Abstract:Preclinical models poorly predict human drug efficacy, particularly in neurological disorders. Neural activity offers a uniquely rich source of translational information because it captures high-dimensional variation in nervous-system function that can be measured in both animals and humans. However, its high dimensionality makes it difficult to distinguish conserved disease-related features from variation arising from species, recording modality and experimental context. Here, we test whether shared neural dynamics can be identified directly from electrophysiology data by learning representations organized by biological state rather than species. We develop a dual-rule contrastive learning framework that aligns corresponding mouse and human states while preserving separation between distinct phenotypes. This framework recovered conserved sensory-response structure across species and, in epilepsy, resolved distinct relationships between three mouse models and heterogeneous human patient populations. When treated animals were projected into a frozen cross-species representation, drug-induced movement towards the human-aligned healthy state retrospectively tracked known clinical efficacy across ten model-drug combinations including a disease-specific detrimental effect. The framework also identified shared disease-associated neural dynamics between Fmr1-knockout mice and human 16p11.2 copy-number variant carriers despite differences in genetic aetiology and recording modality. Together, these findings show the potential of cross-species neural representation learning to map heterogeneous human disease onto experimentally tractable preclinical states and assess whether interventions restore human-relevant circuit function.
[LG-175] Accelerating Non-Smooth and Heavy-Tailed Sampling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11139
作者: Pervez Ali,Xiaoyu Wang,Yingli Wang,Lingjiong Zhu
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Probability (math.PR)
*备注: 50 pages, 10 figures
Abstract:Anchored Langevin dynamics (ALD) is useful for non-smooth sampling where the density of the target distribution is possibly non-differentiable and heavy-tailed; reflected anchored Langevin dynamics (RALD) can sample possibly non-differentiable target density on a constrained domain. In this paper, we propose and study non-reversible anchored Langevin dynamics (NALD) for sampling possibly non-differentiable and heavy-tailed target density in the Euclidean space and the non-reversible reflected anchored Langevin dynamics (NRALD) for sampling possibly non-differentiable target density in the constrained space. Our construction adds a circulation drift generated by a possibly state-dependent divergence-free skew-symmetric matrix field and a stream potential. It preserves the target distribution without requiring derivatives of target density, admits a random-time-change representation, and applies both on the whole Euclidean space and on bounded domains with normal reflection. By breaking reversibility, we show that NALD and NRALD can converge to their target distributions faster than their reversible counterparts via finite-time non-asymptotic convergence analysis, a large deviations analysis and asymptotic variance reduction. Numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.
[LG-176] A General widetildeΩ(sqrtT γ_T) Lower Bound for Kernel Bandits
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11082
作者: Chenkai Ma,Jonathan Scarlett
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:The kernel bandit problem consists of sequentially optimizing an unknown function with noisy feedback, where the function has bounded norm in a given Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). A central quantity in the regret analysis of kernel bandits is the maximum information gain \gamma_T . In particular, the best existing upper bounds scale as \sqrtT\gamma_T up to log factors, and nearly-matching lower bounds have been derived for specific kernels such as squared exponential and Matérn. However, lower bounds for general kernels are lacking, thus making it unclear in what generality the upper bounds are near-optimal. In this paper, we establish a general \Omega(\sqrtT\gamma_T/\log T) minimax regret lower bound for non-constant continuous kernels on compact domains, establishing near-optimality (within log factors) in a very general sense. We show that the log factor appearing in this bound is unavoidable in general, but that it can be removed under certain conditions. Among other things, our findings imply that the minimax-optimal scaling is exactly \Theta(\sqrtT\gamma_T) (i.e., within constant factors) for the Matérn- \nu kernel with \nu \in (0,2) , \gamma -exponential kernel with \gamma \in (0,2) , and certain piecewise-polynomial kernels.
[LG-177] A Graph Neural Network for Global Daily Fire Radiative Power Prediction at Medium-Range Lead Times
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11022
作者: Li Zhang,Jun Wang,Isidora Jankov,Yongxin Liu,Gonzalo A. Ferrada,Ravan Ahmadov,Ligia Bernardet,Haonan Chen,Shobha Kondragunta
类目: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Submitted to Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
Abstract:Skillful prediction of biomass-burning activity several days in advance is important for air-quality forecasting and aerosol prediction. Two operational constraints motivate this work. First, the GBBEPx satellite fire radiative power (FRP) product used to initialize NOAA’s GEFS-Aerosols is available with about a 1.5-day latency, so each forecast cycle relies on the most recently available, but already outdated, fire observations. Second, these fire inputs are then held fixed throughout the subsequent 5-day operational forecast, or 7 days in the GSL experimental system, effectively assuming no evolution in fire activity. We develop a data-driven model that predicts global FRP one to seven days ahead from the most recent available observations. The model adapts a spatiotemporal graph neural network using reanalysis meteorology, land-cover and vegetation information, recent fire history, and GBBEPx FRP as the training target. It is trained on 2020-2022 data and evaluated for 2023-2024. The model reproduces the global seasonal cycle and substantially outperforms persistence. At 0.1 ^\circ resolution, mean squared error is reduced by 32% at one-day lead and 43% at seven days in 2023, and by 24% and 40% in 2024. At 1 ^\circ resolution, the critical success index ranges from 0.32 to 0.60. Detection skill declines only modestly with lead time, whereas intensity skill degrades more rapidly. Large fires are detected reliably, but their radiative power is systematically underestimated. These results demonstrate useful predictability of fire activity several days ahead and identify intensity calibration and small-fire placement as the main remaining challenges before predicted FRP can support operational aerosol forecasts.
[LG-178] Reconstruction of Multiscale Plasma Dynamics Across Operating Regimes
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.11004
作者: Maryam Reza,Farbod Faraji
类目: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 27 pages, 17 figures
Abstract:Reconstructing spatially resolved plasma dynamics from few sensors is essential for diagnostics, reduced-order modelling and control, yet remains difficult because the sparse measurements incompletely constrain multiscale, regime-dependent degrees of freedom. The Shallow Recurrent Decoder (SHRED) partially addresses spatial sparsity by using measurement histories; however, its fully connected decoder provides no explicit mechanism for resolving spatial structure across scales or explicit parametric dependency. We introduce the Recurrent Multiscale Affine-modulated Inference Network (ReMAIN), which preserves SHRED’s recurrent temporal encoding but replaces its decoder with a U-Net whose feature hierarchy is conditioned by the recurrent state through feature-wise linear modulation. The temporal representation supplies both a dense prior and scale-specific modulation throughout the U-Net. A parametric extension jointly embeds the operating condition and sensor history, enabling reconstruction to adapt as the governing dynamics change with operating regime. ReMAIN is first benchmarked against SHRED on six one-dimensional nonlinear PDEs representing diverse dynamics. Across all benchmarks, it reduces reconstruction errors on unseen trajectories and more faithfully resolves sharp transitions, localized extrema and fine-scale variations. The parameter-conditioned model is then demonstrated on a collisionless E \times B plasma subject to perpendicular axial electric and radial magnetic fields, with the electric-field strength serving as the operating parameter. ReMAIN reconstructs the high-dimensional, multiscale plasma state and recovers its regime-dependent spatiotemporal dynamics at electric-field strengths withheld from training. Together, ReMAIN improves sparse-sensor full-state reconstruction and, through parameter conditioning, generalizes across plasma operating regimes.
[LG-179] ransformed Samplers with Variance Reduction
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10870
作者: Siran Liu,Michalis Tisias,Petros Dellaportas
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME)
*备注:
Abstract:Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are the standard tool for computing expectations under complex probability distributions. Control variates reduce the variance of the resulting estimates, but a good control variate requires solving the Poisson equation of the sampler, which rarely admits a closed-form solution. Exact solutions are available when the sampler’s kernel has a known spectral decomposition on a simple reference density. In our work, we extend these solutions to general targets through a learned change of variables. A bijection, such as a normalizing flow, is trained so that the target becomes close to the reference in a latent space, and we show that Markov kernels and their Poisson solutions are transformed by any bijection. Running such samplers in the latent space then yields explicit control variates, and the estimator is consistent under mild tail conditions on the map and target. Importance sampling (IS) from the flow is the limiting case of the same construction and the control variates apply to it as well. Experiments on synthetic targets and real posteriors compare the procedure against state-of-the-art samplers and control variates.
[LG-180] Conformal Prediction under Partial Verification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10829
作者: Zijun Yu,Yu Gu,Vahid Partovi Nia,Masoud Asgharian
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Conformal prediction provides prediction sets with finite-sample guarantees, but the label verification required for calibration can be expensive. We develop a partial verification method that returns exactly the same prediction sets as complete verification. We characterize calibration certificates, the verified information sufficient to determine the conformal threshold, and design a procedure that coordinates verification across calibration examples. For finite thresholds at high coverage, its verification cost is less than twice the minimum certificate cost when candidates are checked in order. Across retrieval, mathematical solutions, and configuration evaluation, it reduces verification cost by 15-82% compared with verifying calibration examples one at a time, while producing identical prediction sets.
[LG-181] Calibrating Ambiguity Set via Diagnostic Transport for Distributionally Robust Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10793
作者: Wenbin Zhou,Elizabeth Cucuzzella,Shixiang Zhu
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
*备注:
Abstract:Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) protects decisions against distributional uncertainty by optimizing over an ambiguity set, but poorly aligned set geometry can require large radii and yield overly conservative decisions. We introduce diagnostic-transport DRO (DT-DRO), which uses held-out calibration data to adapt the ambiguity-set geometry to observed predictive errors. DT-DRO uses the conditional probability integral transform cumulative distribution function to diagnose systematic probability misallocation and translates this information into an outcome-level transport that jointly adjusts the ambiguity-set center and ground cost. The resulting formulation admits a computationally tractable dual reformulation. Theoretically, we derive valid ambiguity radii and decision-risk guarantees that tighten as estimation and approximation errors vanish, and show that DT-DRO can eliminate the nonvanishing robustness floor caused by model misspecification. Synthetic experiments and a power-outage application demonstrate improved decision quality, particularly under structural and tail misspecification.
[LG-182] What can linear attention learn from nonlinear teachers in-context?
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10761
作者: Mary Letey,Arman Rysmakhanov,Yue M. Lu,Cengiz Pehlevan,Jacob Zavatone-Veth
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Linear attention is a tractable model for understanding the mechanisms governing in-context learning in transformers. For linear regression tasks, recent asymptotic analyses have characterised its learning and generalisation behaviour. We extend this theory to nonlinear single-index targets, y=f(x^\top w)+\varepsilon . Our main result establishes a nonlinearity-noise equivalence: linear attention extracts only the linear Hermite component of f , while the remaining nonlinear structure contributes to the generalisation error as effective noise. This reduction allows results from the corresponding linear theory to be transferred to nonlinear tasks. We illustrate its implications for finite pretraining data and for the transition from task memorisation to task generalisation as task diversity increases. These results identify a limitation of the reduced linear-attention model and provide a tractable starting point for studying nonlinear in-context learning.
[LG-183] Deep Learning vs. Statistical Models for Multi-Horizon Price Forecasting of Second-Hand Electronics: A Systematic Benchmark
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10727
作者: Mateusz Buczyński,Michał Woźniak,Konrad Kaczyński,Anna Wróblewska,Sebastian Kuk
类目: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 41 pages, 7 figures, 13 tables
Abstract:Forecasting resale prices of used electronics is critical for subscription-based platforms where pricing errors translate directly into risk. Unlike structured financial markets, second-hand electronics exhibit high volatility, sparse listing histories, and non-normal price dynamics - yet no systematic time-series benchmark exists for this domain. This paper presents the first multi-horizon benchmark of statistical and deep learning forecasting models for used electronics price prediction. We use a large-scale dataset of daily price listings from Polish online marketplaces (January 2022 to March 2025, 100+ smartphone and laptop models) and evaluate eleven models across six horizons from 1 to 365 days, covering classical methods (ARIMA, ETS, Theta), recurrent and convolutional networks (LSTM, TCN), and modern deep architectures (N-BEATS, N-HiTS, TFT, PatchTST, Informer). Three complementary evaluation protocols assess trajectory fitness, one-shot endpoint accuracy, and cross-horizon transfer. N-BEATS achieves the lowest MAPE beyond 30 days, reaching 8.51% at 365 days versus 14.94% for the best statistical baseline - a 43% reduction. At short horizons (1-7 days), all models converge near 0.72% MAPE and the naive baseline remains competitive. A single N-BEATS model trained at 365 days generalizes to all shorter horizons, eliminating the need for horizon-specific models. N-BEATS and N-HiTS also demonstrate superior hyperparameter stability.
[LG-184] On linearity or non-linearity in machine learning for quantum chaotic dynamics
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10697
作者: Francesco Perciavalle,Agostino Gallo,Francesco Plastina,Gianluigi Greco,Nicola Lo Gullo,Carlo Adornetto
类目: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Francesco Perciavalle and Agostino Gallo contributed equally to this work. 11 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Accurately simulating chaotic quantum many-body dynamics remains a major computational challenge for classical methods, due to the rapid buildup and spatial spreading of entanglement during the evolution. This raises the question of whether machine learning can provide an effective alternative for predicting quantum dynamics. We address this question by formulating quantum dynamics as a time-series forecasting problem, using a few-qubit PXP chain, realizable with Rydberg-atom arrays, as a benchmark. By varying the initial state, the system spans dynamical regimes ranging from ergodic behavior to quantum many-body scarring, providing a controlled setting for testing forecasting models across qualitatively different dynamics. We compare two contrasting architectures: an expressive nonlinear Transformer and DLinear, a simple linear forecasting model. The Transformer accurately predicts dynamics in the more ergodic regime, but its performance progressively deteriorates as the initial state approaches the scarred limit. In contrast, DLinear remains accurate across the entire family of initial states, with its main deviations consisting of small high-frequency oscillations that have little effect on the overall prediction error. Remarkably, these results show that observables generated by complex quantum many-body dynamics can be forecast with high accuracy through a simple linear mapping from past to future observations. This reveals that the complexity of the underlying quantum evolution need not translate into an equally complex forecasting problem.
[LG-185] How Many Directions Must a Truncated Diffusion Sampler Retain? Matching Bounds Under Power-Law Spectra
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10640
作者: Radmehr Karimian,Ali Mohades,Johannes Lederer
类目: atistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Diffusion samplers can reduce computation by generating selected spectral coordinates and filling the remaining directions with noise. How many directions must they retain? We study this question for data with power-law covariance spectra. For Gaussian data compared to a smoothed target, we prove matching bounds on the required number of retained directions, provided that the ambient dimension is sufficiently large. The truncation error depends on the combined Wiener gains of the omitted directions, regardless of the accuracy of the sampler on the retained coordinates. Keeping only directions whose signal exceeds the output noise level can therefore leave a non-vanishing error: many individually weak directions remain significant in aggregate. Combining this characterization with a diffusion convergence bound yields sufficient sampling-step complexity under exact scores. The upper bounds also extend to estimated principal components and, componentwise, to Gaussian mixtures. The practical prescription is to select the retained subspace using an aggregate spectral-tail error budget, then to choose the diffusion noise level accordingly.
[LG-186] JevForest: Path Voting for Budgeted Feature Acquisition
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10615
作者: Yu Yan
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Choosing which information to observe is central to prediction under limited observation budgets. We study JevForest, a feature acquisition policy that aggregates path-dependent proposals from bootstrapped trees, weights them by global training information gain, and predicts from the acquired values with a shared masked classifier. An online implementation queries Jev for semantic answers selected by this policy. On small balanced held-out samples, four-question forest acquisition achieves accuracy 0.729 on AG News ( n=48 ), compared with 0.667 for a static gain ranking and 0.583 for random ordering. On TREC ( n=24 ), the ordering reverses: forest accuracy is 0.667 , compared with 0.750 and 0.833 . Asking all eight questions in one batch yields higher accuracy at lower measured cost and latency than four sequential forest queries; direct Jev classification matches the batch accuracy while costing less. Offline MiniBooNE experiments yield accuracy 0.845\pm0.010 at ten features and 0.885\pm0.008 at forty features over three jointly varying data and forest seeds (mean \pm sample standard deviation). A companion Newton boosting implementation provides preliminary full-feature synthetic results. These exploratory findings establish a working Jev acquisition workflow but do not support a general advantage for path voting: its value depends on the task, predictor, and the distinction between question budgets and actual query costs.
[LG-187] he optimal information complexity of VC learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10600
作者: Steve Hanneke,Juexiao Wang
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
*备注:
Abstract:Steinke and Zakynthinou(2020) introduces the Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) framework of analyzing the information complexity of learning algorithms based on algorithm-dependent information-theoretic quantities. We study one of these quantities, the evaluated Conditional Mutual Information (eCMI). It has been an interesting question whether the optimal PAC guarantee for VC classes can be recovered from the algorithm-dependent analyses via CMI. And we show that it is possible to recover this guarantee by constructing a learning algorithm whose eCMI is of order O(d) in the realizable case, where d is the VC-dimension of the concept class. Specially, our algorithm is a randomized Majority-of-5 base learners with optimal in-expectation generalization guarantee.
[LG-188] Interpretable Memory Models for Spaced Repetition
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10548
作者: Anders Schill
类目: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Also available on Zenodo: doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22727106
Abstract:Spaced repetition software schedules reviews with a memory model fit to review logs. Accuracy on a test set is not sufficient evidence of quality since available data are produced by existing schedulers, and new solutions must extrapolate beyond them. A model also needs a simple mechanistic interpretation. We present SBD, a model that is more interpretable and 80% smaller than the current state of the art at nearly the same accuracy.
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